In March 2005, the Party of Free Democrats in Ukraine was self-liquidated and merged into Fatherland Party without a leader, and in 2007 it was renamed Party of Free Democrats.
Mykhaylo Brodskyy (a member of the Hromada faction) formed a 14-member "Yabluko" faction in the Ukrainian Parliament mid-September 2000. At the parliamentary elections on 30 March 2002, the party won 1.2% of the popular vote and no seats (as Yabluko). In March 2005, the party was self-liquidated and merged into Fatherland Party (Batkivschuna) led by Yulia Tymoshenko. But in March 2007 Mykhaylo Brodskyy announced the renewal of the party; renaming it Party of Free Democrats. 
