Movement of New Forces

Movement of New Forces (, Rukh Novykh Syl) is a Ukrainian political party that was founded as the "Party of Harmonious Development" on February 11, 2015, and renamed in February 2017 by Mikheil Saakashvili. History After autumn 2015 attempts and negotiations were launched to form a political party around then Governor of Odesa Oblast Mikheil Saakashvili and members of the parliamentary group Interfactional Union "Eurooptimists", Democratic Alliance and possibly Self Reliance. This project collapsed in June 2016. On 11 November 2016, Saakashvili announced the establishment of a new Ukrainian political party. This was done four days after he resigned as Governor of Odesa Oblast, blaming President Petro Poroshenko personally for enabling corruption in Odesa and in Ukraine overall. On 27 November 2016 this party (now named Movement of New Forces) held its first rally in Kyiv. In August of that same year Saakashvili was allegedly in talks to create another liberal party with ex-deputy general prosecutors Vitaly Kasko, David Sakvarelidze, MP , and others. In July 2016, Chumak stated that a future party called Wave would be led by Saakashvili. In late February 2017, the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine registered Movement of New Forces officially as a political party. On 24 December 2016, Saakashvili claimed that the new party had "already registered 25,000 members."