Oleksiy Kucherenko
Oleksiy Kucherenko | |
|---|---|
Олексій Кучеренко | |
Kucherenko in 2014 | |
| Minister of Housing and Communal Services | |
| In office December 18, 2007 – March 11, 2010 | |
| President | Viktor Yushchenko |
| Prime Minister | Yulia Tymoshenko |
| Preceded by | Oleksandr Popov |
| Succeeded by | Oleksandr Popov |
| Governor of Zaporizhzhia Oblast | |
| In office June 14, 2000 – March 19, 2001 | |
| President | Leonid Kuchma |
| Preceded by | Volodymyr Kuratchenko |
| Succeeded by | Serhiy Sazonov (acting) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | April 3, 1961 Vinnytsia, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine) |
| Political party | Batkivshchyna |
| Other political affiliations | Our Ukraine |
| Alma mater | Kyiv University National Academy for Public Administration under the President of Ukraine[1] |
| Occupation | politician |
Oleksiy Yuriyovych Kucherenko (Ukrainian: Олексій Юрійович Кучеренко; born April 3, 1961) is a Ukrainian politician. He was Minister of Housing and Communal Services from 2007 to 2010.[1] Kucherenko previously served as Governor of Zaporizhzhia Oblast from 2000 to 2001.[2]
Biography
Kucherenko was a Member of Ukrainian parliament (Verkhovna Rada) of III (he won a seat in constituency number 80 located in Zaporizhia Oblast as a self-nominated candidate), V (as a candidate of the Our Ukraine Bloc), VI convocation (as a candidate for the Our Ukraine–People's Self-Defense Bloc).[1] The following election, the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election, Kucherenko failed as a candidate for the Petro Poroshenko Bloc to win a parliamentary seat in constituency 216 located in Kyiv, he lost by a small margin of 100 votes.[1] In the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election he returned to parliament for Batkivshchyna.[3]
He is a Candidate of Sciences (PhD) in sociological sciences.[1]
Kucherenko was the candidate of Batkivshchyna for the post of Mayor of Kyiv in the 2020 Kyiv local election set for October 25, 2020.[4][5] In the election he received 45,823 votes, securing fourth place but losing the election to incumbent Mayor Vitali Klitschko who was re-elected in the first round of the election with 50.52% of the votes, 365,161 people had voted for him.[6]
References
- ^ a b c d e (in Ukrainian) Battle for Kyiv. Life, career, promises of Klitschko, Vereshchuk, Palchevsky and others, Ukrayinska Pravda (September 15, 2020)
- ^ Ex-Minister of Housing and Utilities Kucherenko: The IMF loan is only the beginning. The government will get new funds while people will get new prices and tariffs. Gordonua.com. March 13, 2015
- ^ CEC counts 100 percent of vote in Ukraine's parliamentary elections, Ukrinform (July 26, 2019)
(in Russian) Results of the extraordinary elections of the People's Deputies of Ukraine 2019, Ukrayinska Pravda (July 21, 2019) - ^ (in Ukrainian) Another politician will run for mayor of Kyiv, Ukrayinska Pravda (August 12, 2020)
- ^ Rada appoints next elections to local self-govt bodies for Oct 25, Interfax-Ukraine (July 15, 2020)
- ^ Vitali Klitschko wins in first round of Kyiv mayor election, Ukrinform (November 6, 2020)