[13][14] In the 2014 election, the party won 29 seats predominantly in the Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, Luhansk and Kharkiv oblasts.

[16] Instead, he argued to help stabilize Ukraine, Manafort advised to create a new political party called Opposition Bloc.

[10][24] Other main figures on this election list are Natalia Korolevska, Mykhailo Dobkin and Vadim Rabinovich.

[10][24] In September 2014 Boyko argued that Opposition Bloc does not represent parties, but consisted only of individual politicians.

[35] On 27 November 2014 an Opposition Bloc parliamentary faction of 40 people was formed (at the opening session of the new parliament).

[19] Ukrainska Pravda says these talks were instigated by Serhiy Lyovochkin who, along with Dmytro Firtash, controlled one of the wings of the party.

[14][41] The same day Opposition Bloc leading members Vadym Novynskyi and Borys Kolesnikov claimed the agreement was a "personal initiative" of Boyko and that the party had not take any decisions on cooperation with For life.

[42] On 17 November 2018 Opposition Platform — For life nominated Boyko as its candidate in the 2019 Ukrainian presidential election.

[41] On 20 November 2018 Boyko and Serhiy Lyovochkin (leading member of the Party of Development of Ukraine[43]) were excluded from the Opposition Bloc faction (the reason given was) "because they betrayed their voters" interests.

[44] On 17 December 2018 an Opposition Bloc congress nominated Oleksandr Vilkul as their candidate in the 2019 Ukrainian presidential election.

[50] The composition of the shadow government of the Opposition Bloc is as follows:[51][52] According to Tadeusz Olszański [pl], of the Centre for Eastern Studies, the party's 2014 election programme was socially liberal and pro-Russophone.

[1][11][12] The party rejects the March 2014 annexation of Crimea by Russia and wants "peace in united Ukraine within the borders of 1991".

[14] In 2017 Opposition Bloc MP's opposed the law that made Ukrainian the main language of public education, in 2018 they were against a draft bill that establishes Ukrainian as the obligatory language in all spheres of public life, and makes the violation of this legislation an administrative offense.

[12] Yuriy Boyko  · Oleksandr Vilkul  · Mykhailo Dobkin  · Vadym Rabinovych  · Oleksiy BilyiSerhiy Larin  · Nestor Shufrych  · Natalia Korolevska  · Tetiana Bakhteyeva  · Mykola Skoryk