The Parliamentarian Association "Justice" () is a parliamentary faction in the Verkhovna Rada (the national parliament of Ukraine), founded in 2021 by 11 deputies of the Holos party who disagree with the actions of the party leadership.
History The political party Holos, which was established in May 2019, won 20 seats in the July 2019 parliamentary election.CEC counts 100 percent of vote in Ukraine's parliamentary elections, Ukrinform (26 July 2019) Results of the extraordinary elections of the People's Deputies of Ukraine 2019, Ukrayinska Pravda (21 July 2019)
In January 2021, Kira Rudyk, Yaroslav Zheleznyak and Oleksandra Ustinova began negotiations, moderated by Rustem Umierov, to prevent a split in Holos's parliamentary faction. These talks failed and in June 2021 the faction in the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine's national parliament) finally split. 11 out of 20 Holos MPs, led by Ustinova, separated into the parliamentary association Justice.
In the 2019 parliamentary election, several Ukrainian Galician Party members were elected to parliament as part of an alliance with Holos.Small biography on Ukrainian Galician Party, Civil movement "Chesno" Representatives of the Ukrainian Galician Party will run for the vote in seven constituencies of Lviv region, OPORA Lviv (7 June 2020) All Ukrainian Galician Party members became member of the breakaway group. A choir of soloists. How Voice is preparing to reunify in the Verkhovna Rada, Ukrayinska Pravda (7 February 2022)
On 17 December 2021, the leader of Justice, Ustinova officially became the head of the Holos faction, instead of Yaroslav Zheleznyak, who represents the party establishment. Zheleznyak did not recognise this official announcement by First Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Oleksandr Kornienko.
Unification talks between Rudyk and Ustinova restarted in January 2022.
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