Anatoliy Serhiyovych Matviyenko (, March 22, 1953 – May 22, 2020) was a Ukrainian politician, founder of several political parties in the country. Matviyenko was 6 times elected to the
Ukrainian parliament
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.
Biography
Matviyenko was born on March 22, 1953, in
Bershad
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Vinnytsia Oblast
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, to a working-class family. In 1975, he graduated the Lviv Agrarian Institute, Agrarian Mechanization faculty.
Between 1975 and 1977 Matviyenko worked as a mechanic in Bershad. From 1977 he was an activist of
Komsomol
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(LKSMU) and by 1985 became a secretary of the Central Committee of LKSMU. In 1989–91 Matviyenko became the first secretary of the Ukrainian Komsomol and became a member of the
Communist Party of Ukraine
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.
As the first secretary of the Central Committee of LKSMU, in the
1990 Ukrainian Supreme Soviet election
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Matviyenko was elected to the
Ukrainian parliament
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Bershad
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History
The first extant mention of Bershad appears in 1459. It was a pri ...
electoral district. In 1990 he was recommending electing
Vladimir Ivashko
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as the chairman of
Verkhovna Rada
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Matviyenko was Governor of Vinnytsia Oblast between 1996 and 1998. In February 1996 Matviyenko became member and leader of the new People's Democratic Party.
Matviyenko returned to the Ukrainian parliament in the
1998 Ukrainian parliamentary election
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for the People's Democratic Party. He also was the party's faction leader. But Matviyenko left this party after accusing the party of being forced into supporting
Leonid Kuchma
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in the
1999 Ukrainian presidential election
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2002 Ukrainian parliamentary election
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Matviyenko was elected for the
Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc
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, he was placed second on its election list after
Yulia Tymoshenko
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. From 20 April 2005 to 21 September 2005 Matviyenko was
Prime Minister of Crimea
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. In September 2005 he resigned from the post in protest against the fact that his party members did not support the candidacy of
Yuriy Yekhanurov
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for the post of
Prime Minister of Ukraine
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Viktor Yushchenko
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) early 2006. In the
2006 Ukrainian parliamentary election
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he was elected again to parliament for the Our Ukraine Bloc (number 12 on its electoral list). He was reelected in the
2007 Ukrainian parliamentary election
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for the
Our Ukraine–People's Self-Defense Bloc
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(number 22 on the list).
Matviyenko was registered as an independent candidate in his native Vinnytsia Oblast during the
UDAR
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who indeed gained a parliamentary seat (gaining 46.73% of the votes).
In the
2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election
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Matviyenko was again elected into parliament; after placing 32nd on the electoral list of
Petro Poroshenko Bloc
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.Poroshenko Bloc to have greatest number of seats in parliament ,
Interfax-Ukraine
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(22 May 2020)
Matviyenko was married to Olha, and had two sons Viktor and Pavlo.