The party was founded in January 2015 as People's Tribune (Ukrainian: Народна трибуна) and was led by Andriy Smolyaninov.[1] In August 2015 the party was renamed and rebranded as the local party (for Vinnytsia) Vinnytsia European Strategy (Ukrainian: Вінницька європейська стратегія).[1][2] At that time (from March 2006 until February 2014) Volodymyr Groysman was Mayor of Vinnytsia.[3] Many of the deputies of the Vinnytsia City Council elected in the 2010 Ukrainian local elections for Conscience of Ukraine (Groysman himself was elected Mayor of Vinnytsia for it during the election) joined the party.[1] In the 2015 Ukrainian local elections the party won 20 representatives to the Vinnytsia City Council (including Groysman's father).[1] In the Vinnytsia City Council its deputies formed a coalition with representatives of Petro Poroshenko Bloc "Solidarity".[1] Groysman had joined this party in 2014 (and was elected to parliament in the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election as number 8 on its party list).[3] From 2016 to 2019, the party was called "Ukrainian Strategy".[1] Groysman was Prime Minister of Ukrainefrom April 2016 to August 2019.[3]
In the 2020 Ukrainian local elections 567 people won seats in local councils on behalf of the party, that is about 1.72% of the available seats.[10] All these mandates were won in Vinnytsia Oblast.[11] There the party gained an absolute majority on the Vinnytsia City Council, with 34 out of the 54 seats; the party also had regional success, winning 40 of the 84 seats in the Vinnytsia Oblast Council.[12][13] Ukrainian Strategy of Groysman candidate for Mayor of Vinnytsia Serhiy Morhunov [uk] was re-elected Mayor with 66% of the total votes.[12][14]
