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Christian Democratic Union
Leader	Dr. Volodymyr Stretovych
Founded	1997
Headquarters	Vul. B. Khmelnytskoho 3-A UA-01001 Kyiv
Political Ideology	Christian Democracy, Conservatism
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International Affiliation	Christian Democrat and People's Parties International
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Colours	Cherry and White
Website	http://www.hds.org.ua http://www.hdsosessa.org.ua http://www.hds.mykolayiv.com http://www.hds-kharkiv.org.ua http://www.cdakharkov.boom.ru http://www.panko.org.ua
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The Christian Democratic Union (ukr. Християнсько-демократичний союз) is a political party in Ukraine.

It was created on February, 8, 1997 in Kyiv, Ukraine, after the name Christian People's Union, to promote the ideas of European Christian democracy in Ukraine. In March 2002, the CPU in alliance Our Ukraine led by the present President of Ukraine, Viktor Yushchenko, won the parliamentary elections. In the 4th Congress of CPU in 2003 three parties united with it (Christian Democratic Party of Ukraine, Ukrainian Christian Democratic Party and All-Ukrainian Union of Christians), forming a new party on the base of CPU - Christian Democratic Union. A well-known Ukrainian lawyer, Dr. Volodymyr Stretovych became the CDU's president. At the parliamentary elections on 26 March 2006, the party was part of the Our Ukraine alliance. It was a serious discussion^{[attribution needed]} in the party as to whom must it form an alliance with. Many Christian democrats thought it would be better for the Christian Democratic Union to participate in elections without any alliance. But the party united one more time with governmental alliance Our Ukraine, although it doesn't have ministries in Yulia Tymoshenko's nor in Yuri Yekhanurov's governments.

The CDU's newspaper is Християнський демократ (Christian democrat).

On December 2, 2002, in Athens, Greece the party became a member of Christian Democrat and People's Parties International. It is negotiated now its associated membership in the European People's Party.

There are three principles of CDU - Justice, Solidarity and Responsibility. In economy the party supports a free market on the base of private propriety and honest competition, but also an active social regulating of economy. In social politics - a right for free education and medicine, an address help to those in need. In international politics - a Ukraine's membership in European Union and NATO. In the parliamentary elections on 30 September 2007, the party was part of the Our Ukraine alliance, that won 72 out of 450 seats.

v • d • e Political parties in Ukraine
Parliamentary blocs and parties	Party of Regions (175) Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc (156) (All-Ukrainian Union "Fatherland" • Reforms and Order Party • Ukrainian Social Democratic Party) Our Ukraine–People's Self-Defense Bloc (72) (People's Union "Our Ukraine" • Forward, Ukraine! • People's Movement of Ukraine • Ukrainian People's Party • Ukrainian Republican Party Assembly • Christian Democratic Union • European Party of Ukraine • PORA • Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists • Motherland Defenders Party) Communist Party of Ukraine (27) Lytvyn Bloc (20) (People's Party • Labour Party of Ukraine)
Extra-parliamentary blocs and parties	Socialist Party of Ukraine People's Opposition Bloc of Natalia Vitrenko (Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine • Rus'-Ukrainian Union) Ukrainian Regional Asset (Popular Democratic Party • Democratic Party of Ukraine • Republican Christian Party) Opposition Bloc "Ne Tak" (Social Democratic Party of Ukraine (united) • Republican Party of Ukraine • Women for the Future • All-Ukrainian Union "Center") Ukrainian National Bloc of Kostenko and Plyushch (Party of Free Peasants and Entrepreneurs of Ukraine • Political Party "Cathedral Ukraine") Bloc of the Party of Pensioners of Ukraine (Party of Pensioners of Ukraine • Party of Protection of Pensioners of Ukraine) Electoral Bloc of Political Parties "KUCHMA" (Party "Union" • All-Ukrainian Union "Center") Other parties: Party of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs • Party of Greens of Ukraine • Viche • All-Ukrainian Union "Freedom"
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