[19][22] On 11 March 2010 party leader Tihipko was elected as one of six deputy Prime Ministers (in charge of economic issues[23]) in the Azarov Government.

[10] In the 2010 local elections the party won representative in 20 of the 24 regional parliaments and in the Supreme Council of Crimea.

[11][31][32][33] Mid-December 2011 Tihipko predicted the unification process would be completed late January 2012; but he also warned that if "problematic issues" would not be solved Strong Ukraine would not merge.

[9] According to Sociological group "RATING" the party would have collected 3.1% of the votes if Ukrainian parliamentary election would have occurred in February 2012.

[38] On 29 March a Party of Regions convention supported Mykhailo Dobkin's nomination as a presidential candidate.

[12] He then accused that the party had "been turned into a branch of a specific financial and industrial group, a private enterprise".

[39] On 23 April 2014 Tihipko announced that Strong Ukraine would be revived and that its merger with Party of Regions had been "a mistake".

[1] The party seeks a peaceful resolution to the conflict by negotiating with Russia through European mediators but not directly with the pro-Russian combatants.