Svitlana Zalishchuk

Svitlana Zalishchuk
Світлана Заліщук
People's Deputy of Ukraine
In office
27 November 2014[1] – 24 July 2019
Personal details
Born (1982-10-24) 24 October 1982 (age 42)
Zhashkiv, Cherkasy Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
NationalityUkrainian
Political partyDemocratic Alliance
Other political
affiliations		Petro Poroshenko Bloc (until August 2016)
SpouseWayne Jordash

Svitlana Petrivna Zalishchuk (Ukrainian: Світлана Петрівна Заліщук, born on October 24, 1982)[2] is a politician, public leader, journalist, human rights campaigner and former member of Ukrainian Parliament (member of the Committee for Foreign Affairs).

In the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election Zalishchuk lost reelection as an independent candidate in a single-seat constituency in Cherkasy Oblast.[3] After the election she became a foreign policy adviser to Prime Minister Oleksiy Honcharuk.[4] On 4 March 2020 Denys Shmyhal replaced Honcharuk as Prime Minister but did not retain Zalishchuk as advisor.[5][6]

  1. ^ CEC registers 357 newly elected deputies of 422 Archived 2014-11-26 at the Wayback Machine, National Radio Company of Ukraine (25 November 2014)
    Parliament to form leadership and coalition on November 27, UNIAN (26 November 2014)
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference Rada-Bio was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ "Міжнародка та євроінтеграція: хто пройшов та хто "пролетів" на виборах до Ради". www.eurointegration.com.ua.
  4. ^ @svitlanaza (10 November 2019). "Now officially - appointed as an Advisor to Prime Minister of Ukraine @PMHoncharuk on foreign policy. My responsibi…" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  5. ^ "Denys Schmygal zum neuen Premierminister ernannt". www.ukrinform.de (in German). Retrieved 2020-03-05.
  6. ^ "Садовий, Гриценко, Заліщук і Гацько – про об'єднання та проєвропейський напрямок". Українська Правда.