Vasyl Protyvsikh () (born Vasyl Vasylyovych Humenyuk, , born October 16, 1946Він, вона, воно - і проти всіх

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(November 8, 2009)) is a Ukrainian politician. He is best known as a self-nominated candidate in the

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, for which he changed his second name to Protyvsikh (ukr. for "

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").CEC registers two more candidates for Ukraine's president

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(November 6, 2009) During the 2010 election he received 0.16% of the votes.

Biography

Vasyliy Humenyuk completed a law degree at the

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after serving in the

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.Political Pulse: Presidential field takes shape

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(November 11, 2009) As a member of the

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(although he insist he "never was and never will be a

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") Humenyuk was mayor of

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from 1984 until the first democratic local elections in Ukraine in 1991.Василь Противсіх: колгоспник Лукашенко став президентом, чим я гірший?
, ZAXID.NET (November 6, 2009) Later he headed the customs service in

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. Humenyuk was numbered number 23 at party list of the

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during the

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. Vasyliy nominated himself for the

. On October 2, 2009 he changed his second name to Protyvsikh, that can be translated as " Against-everyone". Protyvsikh changed his surname to “express the opinions of all those citizens that are against all candidates and the disorder that Ukraine currently finds itself in”. Protyvsikh claims "friends from around the world" assisted him in obtained the ₴2.5 million deposit needed for his registration as presidential candidate. Protyvsikh considered

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his main opponent in the presidential elections. Currently Protyvsikh is president of the Ivano-Frankivsk

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. Protyvsikh wants Ukraine to have a banking system as Switzerland. In the 2012 parliamentary elections, he ran in the 83rd electoral district (Ivano-Frankivsk) as a self-nominated candidate, and took 8th place among 10 candidates with 627 votes (0.62%).

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Humenyuk, Vasily 1946 births Living people Politicians from Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast Mayors of places in Ukraine Candidates in the 2010 Ukrainian presidential election