Solomiia Anatoliivna Bobrovska (; born 20 December 1989) is a Ukrainian politician and civic activist currently serving as a
People's Deputy of Ukraine
A people's deputy of Ukraine (, ) is a member of parliament and legislator elected by Direct election, popular vote to the Verkhovna Rada, the parliament of Ukraine. They are often referred to simply as "deputies". Prior to 1991, the Verkhovna R ...
on the proportional list of the Holos party since 2019. From 2016 to 2017, she served as the Acting Governor of Odesa Oblast.
Since 2022, Solomiia has been a member of the Parliamentary Committee on National Security, Defence and Intelligence.
Education
From 2007 to 2012, Bobrovska studied at the Philosophy Faculty of the
University of Lviv
The Ivan Franko National University of Lviv (named after Ivan Franko, ) is a state-sponsored university in Lviv, Ukraine. Since 1940 the university is named after Ukrainian poet Ivan Franko.
The university is the oldest institution of highe ...
, obtaining a master's degree. She completed her Ph.D. on "Freedom as a source of social and legal legitimation of civil society".
From 2005 to 2007, she studied at the Regional Information and Computer Center of the Rivne Regional Administration.
She is a graduate of the Institute of Civic Leadership, and of the joint project between th Laboratory of the Legislative Initiatives and the
Council of Europe
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.
In 2010, as part of the Canadian-Ukrainian parliamentary program, she completed an internship at the
Parliament of Canada
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in the office of Liberal Party MP Andrew Kania.
In 2017, she interned at the Women's Council of Public Administration of
Massachusetts
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(
Boston
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,
United States
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).
Civic activity
In 2002, Bobrovska became a member of the national scout organisation
Plast
The Plast National Scout Organization of Ukraine (), commonly called Ukrainian Plast or simply , is the largest Scouting organization in Ukraine.
History
First Era: 1911–1920
Plast was founded in Lviv (Lwów, Lemberg), Austro-Hungarian Ga ...
She joined the NGO " Foundation of Regional Initiatives" in 2009.
Bobrovska was an activist in the civic movement "Honestly. Filter the Rada!"(). She was a co-founder of the
Euromaidan
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SOS and Help the SBGSU.
In 2012–2014 and in 2015, she was the curator of projects of the public organization "Civil Liberties Center".
In 2018–2019, she headed the NGO "Ukrainian Osnova", one of the directions of which is the project of the Studio of Women's Political Interaction for women of southern and eastern Ukraine.
Solomiia Bobrovska took active part in the support campaign of Serhii Sternenko.
Parliament of Canada
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Mikheil Saakashvili
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.
From April 2016 until January 2017, Bobrovska served as a Deputy Governor of Odesa Oblast. On 9 November 2016, Saakashvili resigned, and she was appointed Acting Governor. 26 years old at the time of her appointment, Bobrovska became the youngest Governor in Ukraine's history. She left the post on 12 January 2017.
From September–November 2017, Bobrovska completed a fellowship at th Massachusetts Caucus of Women Legislators (
Boston
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, USA). In 2018–2019, she served as head of the NGO "Ukrainian Core", focusing on the Women's Political Interaction Studies Project for women of Southern and Eastern Ukraine.
Political activity
Bobrovska was one of the core members of the group around Svyatoslav Vakarchuk who initiated the Holos party (). She was a candidate at the
2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Ukraine on 21 July 2019. Originally scheduled to be held at the end of October, the elections were brought forward after newly inaugurated President of Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy dissolved parli ...
as the ninth candidate on the party's proportional list. In the election, Holos won 5.82% of the vote, leading to the election of the first seventeen members of the proportional list (as well as three candidates in
Lviv Oblast
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History Name
The region is named ...
) as
People's Deputy of Ukraine
A people's deputy of Ukraine (, ) is a member of parliament and legislator elected by Direct election, popular vote to the Verkhovna Rada, the parliament of Ukraine. They are often referred to simply as "deputies". Prior to 1991, the Verkhovna R ...
.CEC counts 100 percent of vote in Ukraine's parliamentary elections
Ukrainska Pravda
''Ukrainska Pravda'' is a Ukrainian socio-political online media outlet founded by Heorhii Gongadze in April 2000. After Gongadze’s death in September 2000, the editorial team was led by co-founder Olena Prytula, who remained the editor-in ...
(21 July 2019)
She has served as Secretary of the Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs and Inter-parliamentary Cooperation, Deputy Head of Ukrainian Delegation to the NATO PA, and as Co-Head of the Latvia-Ukraine Parliamentary Friendship Group.
On 29 July 2021, Holos expelled Bobrovska from the party; the party stated that it could not envisage "building a common political force" with her or with the six other People's Deputies who were also ousted."Voice" expelled 7 people's deputies from the party Ukrayinska Pravda (29 July 2021) Earlier that day, Bobrovska herself had written a resignation statement, expressing dissatisfaction with Kira Rudik's leadership of the party.