Democratic Axe

About 30 well-known bloggers (Iurii Gudymenko, Ihor Bihdan), journalists (Viktor Tregubov, editor-in-chief of the site "Peter and Mazepa"), Mykhailo Makaruk (volunteer of Narodny Tyl and the Inform Napalm community), businessmen (Bohdana Yarova, Pylyp Dukhlii), hackers (people known by the nicknames "Sean Townsend" and "Jeoffrey Dahmer" from the "Ukrainian Cyber Alliance"), ATO veterans (Oleksandr Zolotko, Anton Kolumbet), volunteers ("Serg Marco", Yaroslav Matiushyn), programmers and writers made statements about joining or supporting the party.

[4] On August 4, 2018, the constituent assembly of the party was held at the Svii v dosku (Ukrainian: Свій в доску) pub, which was attended by 400 people.

[16][17] The party stands for "the land market, the liberalization of gun laws, the consistent decriminalization of light drugs, the legalization of casinos and prostitution, LGBT marriages and all other initiatives aimed at maximizing the release of a responsible citizen from the dictatorship of the socialist state."

[20][21] On June 6, 2018, three representatives of the "Democratic Axe Horde" NGO created by the party — Maksym Dizhechko, Tetiana Lokatska and Anatolii Mazur — garnered the highest number of votes during the elections to the Public Control Council of National Anti-Corruption Bureau and became part of it.

[22][23][24][25][26] In the 2019 elections to the National Anti-Corruption Bureau Public Control Council, NGOs, close to Democratic Axe, formed a coalition with the "Veterans Movement of Ukraine" and won 14 out of 15 seats.

Iurii Gudymenko Gudimenko, Ukrainian blogger and politician, at the rally against Ihor Kolomoisky, near President Office, Kyiv, Bankova Str.
Iurii Gudymenko during the action "Impeachment of Kolomoisky " near President Office, Kyiv, September 20, 2019