Our Ukraine

…early that year saw Yushchenko’s Our Ukraine party finish third, behind Yanukovych’s Party of Regions and the Yuliya Tymoshenko Bloc. When a proposed coalition of the so-called Orange parties in the parliament fell apart, Yushchenko was forced to accept his rival Yanukovych as prime minister. The ensuing power struggle between…

…his allegiance again to the Our Ukraine party of Viktor Yushchenko in 2001 and was named head of the parliamentary budget committee the following year. After the Orange Revolution swept Yushchenko into the president’s office, in 2005 Poroshenko was appointed national security secretary in Yushchenko’s cabinet. After just seven months…

…a broad-based democratic coalition called Our Ukraine, which was victorious in the parliamentary elections later that year and gave him a platform from which to mount a credible challenge to Kuchma, who had been accused of overseeing an increasingly corrupt administration.