Serhii Volodymyrovych Khlan (born 29 June 1972; ) is a Ukrainian politician. He was born in
Snihurivka
Snihurivka ( ) is a small city in Bashtanka Raion, Mykolaiv Oblast, Ukraine. It hosts the administration of . Population:
It was occupied by Russia from 19 March 2022 until 10 November 2022.
History
Snihurivka was a settlement in Kherson ...
,
Mykolaiv Oblast
Mykolaiv Oblast (, ), also referred to as Mykolaivshchyna (, ), is an administrative divisions of Ukraine, oblast (province) of Ukraine. The administrative center of the oblast is the city of Mykolaiv. At the most recent estimate, the population ...
. In 2020, Khlan became a member of the
Kherson Oblast Council
The Kherson Oblast Council () is the regional oblast council (parliament) of the Kherson Oblast (province) located in Southern Ukraine.
Council members are elected for five year terms. In order to gain representation in the council, a party must ...
for
Petro Poroshenko
Petro Oleksiiovych Poroshenko (born 26 September 1965) is a Ukraine, Ukrainian politician and Oligarchy, oligarch who served as the fifth president of Ukraine from 2014 to 2019. He served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs (Ukraine), Minister ...
's party
European Solidarity
European Solidarity (, ; , YeS) is a political party in Ukraine. It has its roots in a parliamentary group called Solidarity dating from 2000 and has existed since in various forms as a political outlet for Petro Poroshenko. The party with its the ...
From 1993 to 2004, he worked at secondary school No. 57 in
Mykolaiv
Mykolaiv ( ), also known as Nikolaev ( ) is a List of cities in Ukraine, city and a hromada (municipality) in southern Ukraine. Mykolaiv is the Administrative centre, administrative center of Mykolaiv Raion (Raions of Ukraine, district) and Myk ...
as a mathematics teacher. Starting in 2000, he began entrepreneurial activities, founding several agricultural enterprises, which he consolidated in 2010 into the agro-industrial complex "ZlatoDar" centered in
Kakhovka
Kakhovka (, ) is a port city on the Dnieper River in Kakhovka Raion, Kherson Oblast, of southern Ukraine. It hosts the administration of the Kakhovka urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. It had a population of Kakhovka has been under ...
,
Kherson region
Kherson Oblast (, ; ), also known as Khersonshchyna (, ), is an oblast (province) in southern Ukraine. It is located just north of Crimea. Its administrative center is Kherson, on the northern or right bank of the Dnieper river, which bisects t ...
Party of Regions
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Revolution of Dignity
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in 2013, he was part of the Kakhovka united resistance headquarters. In the 2014 early presidential elections, he was a trusted representative for P. Poroshenko in the 188 electoral district.
In 2013, he advocated for the redistribution of resources in favor of local communities, therefore supporting the decentralization by
Petro Poroshenko
Petro Oleksiiovych Poroshenko (born 26 September 1965) is a Ukraine, Ukrainian politician and Oligarchy, oligarch who served as the fifth president of Ukraine from 2014 to 2019. He served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs (Ukraine), Minister ...
.
In the Verkhovna Rada, he is part of the Committee on Agrarian Policy and Land Relations, focusing on the development of irrigation systems. His first legislative proposal resulted in a ban on the privatization of the Kakhovka Main Canal.
In Kakhovka in 2015, during a session of the newly elected city council, MP from the BPP, Serhiy Khlan, threw a sausage at a deputy from the "Opposition Bloc," Pavlo Filipchuk.
He campaigned against the presidential race favorite
Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy (born 25 January 1978) is a Ukrainian politician and former entertainer who has served as the sixth and current president of Ukraine since 2019. He took office five years after the start of the Russo-Ukraini ...
, promising him impeachment.
During his tenure in the Verkhovna Rada, his assets increased nearly 300 times, which Serhiy Khlan explained by the difference between paper and electronic declarations.