KPU(o) was led by Mykhaylo Savenko, previously a member of Parliament of the pro-president Kuchma[2] Labour Ukraine.

Savenko had been a Member of Parliament supporting President Leonid Kuchma[5] in Labour Ukraine.

[8] In the 2007 Ukrainian parliamentary election, the party garnered only 0.29% of the popular vote.

[12] Because of these laws, the Ukrainian Interior Ministry stripped the party of its right to participate in elections on 24 July 2015.

[13] The party did not challenge this ban and was thus on 30 September 2015 terminated by the District Administrative Court in Kyiv.