Petro Symonenko

In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Mykolayovych and the family name is Symonenko.

Petro Symonenko
Петро Симоненко
First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine
Incumbent
Assumed office
19 June 1993
Preceded byPosition established
People's Deputy of Ukraine
In office
12 May 1994 – 27 November 2014
Constituency
Personal details
Born (1952-08-01) 1 August 1952 (age 72)
Donetsk, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine)
Political partyCommunist Party of Ukraine
Other political
affiliations		Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1978–1991)
Spouses
Svetlana Vladimirovna Simonenko
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(m. 1974; div. 2009)​
[7]
Oksana Nikolayevna Vashchenko
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(m. 2009)​
[8]
ChildrenMaria (born 2009), 2 (adult) sons[7]
Residence(s)Kyiv, Ukraine[9]
Websiterada.gov.ua

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 party's candidate in the 1999 and 2004, 2010,[10][nb 1] and until his withdrawal, the 2014 Ukrainian presidential elections.[12][13] The Central Election Commission of Ukraine prohibited his candidacy for the 2019 Ukrainian presidential election due to the fact that the statute, name, and symbolism of his party did not comply with the decommunization laws in Ukraine.[14]

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  2. ^ "People's Deputy of Ukraine of the III convocation". Official portal (in Ukrainian). Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
  3. ^ "People's Deputy of Ukraine of the IV convocation". Official portal (in Ukrainian). Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Retrieved 22 December 2014.[permanent dead link]
  4. ^ "People's Deputy of Ukraine of the V convocation". Official portal (in Ukrainian). Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
  5. ^ "People's Deputy of Ukraine of the VI convocation". Official portal (in Ukrainian). Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
  6. ^ "People's Deputy of Ukraine of the VII convocation". Official portal (in Ukrainian). Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
  7. ^ a b Chief communist of Ukraine has extramarital affair! Archived 2010-02-08 at the Wayback Machine, MIGnews (2 February 2009)
  8. ^ Leader of Communist Party Symonenko got married second time, UNIAN (28 September 2009)
  9. ^ Biography Archived 2009-11-07 at the Wayback Machine, Verkhovna Rada
  10. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference BLCSfc was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  11. ^ Four parties unite to participate in presidential election, Interfax-Ukraine (September 14, 2009)
  12. ^ Cite error: The named reference PSep6414 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  13. ^ Cite error: The named reference CommunistoutPresE2014 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  14. ^ (in Ukrainian) The CEC refused to register nearly fifty presidential candidates, Ukrayinska Pravda (8 February 2019)


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