Petro Symonenko
| Petro Symonenko Петро Симоненко |
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| First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine | |
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In office 19 June 1993 – 16 December 2015 |
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Petro Mykolayovych Symonenko 1 August 1952 Donetsk, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union |
| Nationality | Ukrainian |
| Political party | Communist Party of Ukraine |
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Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1978 - 1991) |
| Spouse(s) | Oksana Vashchenko Svetlana (first) |
| Children | Maria (born 2009), 2 (adult) sons |
| Residence | Kiev, Ukraine |
| Occupation | Politician |
| Website | http://rada.gov.ua |
| People's Deputy of Ukraine | ||||
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| 2nd convocation | ||||
| 12 May 1994 – 27 November 2014 | ||||
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Elected as: Communist Party, Donetsk Oblast, District No.150 |
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| 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th convocations | ||||
| 12 May 1994 – 27 November 2014 | ||||
| Elected as: Communist Party, No.1 | ||||
Petro Mykolayovych Symonenko (Ukrainian: Петро́ Микола́йович Симоне́нко; born 1 August 1952) is a Ukrainian politician and the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine. Symonenko was the Communist Party's candidate in the 1999 and 2004, 2010 and until his withdrawal, the 2014 presidential election.
Symonenko was born in Donetsk. He became a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1978, and worked as a party functionary in 1980s. He has been the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine since 1993. He is also the Chairman of the Communist Party Faction in the Verkhovna Rada (parliament).
Symonenko has been a Ukrainian delegate to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. From 1994 to 1996 he was a member of the Ukrainian parliament's Constitution Commission.
He was a candidate in the 1999 presidential election, receiving 22.24% of the votes in the first round and taking second place. In the second round he won 37.8% of the votes, losing to Leonid Kuchma. His election program had classic communist content.
In late 2002 Viktor Yushchenko (Our Ukraine), Oleksandr Moroz (Socialist Party of Ukraine), Yulia Tymoshenko (Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc) and Symonenko issued a joint statement concerning "the beginning of a state revolution in Ukraine". The communist left the alliance, Symonenko was against a single candidate from the alliance in the Ukrainian presidential election 2004, but the other three parties remained allies (until July 2006).
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