The Central Election Commission of Ukraine is a permanent and independent collegiate body of the Ukrainian state that acts on the basis of the Constitution of Ukraine, the laws of Ukraine and is responsible for organizing the arrangements and the conduct of the presidential and parliamentary elections in Ukraine as well as the local elections at all levels, managing the all-Ukrainian and local referendums according to the procedure and within the legal framework defined by the laws of Ukraine.
Andriy Ivanovych Sadovyi is a Ukrainian politician. He is the mayor of Lviv, the administrative center of the Lviv Oblast of western Ukraine, former leader of the Self Reliance political party, and co-founder of "Lux" media holding. Sadovyi was a candidate in the 2019 Ukrainian presidential election from 8 January until 1 March 2019, when he decided to withdraw.
Mykola Ivanovich Kmit is a Ukrainian politician and the former head of the Lviv Oblast State Administration. He is a president of the Ukrainian football club FC Skala Stryi.
Vadim Zinovyevich Rabinovich is an Israeli and formerly Ukrainian oligarch and Jewish community leader. He is a former leader of the banned Opposition Platform — For Life party, as well as an unsuccessful candidate in the 2014 Ukrainian presidential election and a People's Deputy of Ukraine from the 8th and 9th Verkhovna Rada convocations, serving as a member of the Opposition Bloc from 2014 to 2019 and as a member of Opposition Platform — For Life from 2019 until he was removed from office by the party for his support of Russia during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Iryna Volodymyrivna Herashchenko is a Ukrainian journalist and politician currently serving as a People's Deputy of Ukraine from European Solidarity. She is a Merited Journalist of Ukraine since 2000. Former First Deputy Chairwoman of the Verkhovna Rada, also serving as President's Humanitarian Envoy at the Minsk peace talks regarding the War in Donbas.
Colonel General Ihor Petrovich Smeshko served as the head of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) from 2003 to 2005, where he supported the opposition during the Orange Revolution. In 2010, he entered politics with the Strength and Honor party, which he formed with several former security and intelligence officials. He was chairman of the Intelligence Committee under the President of Ukraine.
The Union "Self Reliance" is a liberal conservative and Christian democratic political party in Ukraine.
The second Yatsenyuk government was created in Ukraine after the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election. On 2 December 2014, 288 members of the Ukrainian parliament approved the composition of the cabinet. The Government was backed by Petro Poroshenko Bloc, People's Front, Self Reliance, Fatherland and Radical Party.
Oksana Ivanivna Syroyid is a Ukrainian politician and jurist. She was elected to the Verkhovna Rada in the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary elections. In December 2014, she became the first woman to serve as the deputy speaker of the Ukrainian Parliament. Since October 2019 Syroyid is the party leader of Self Reliance.
Boryslav Yukhymovych Blacher-Bereza is a former member of the Ukrainian parliament and a former spokesperson for Right Sector (2014). In the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election he lost reelection as an independent candidate in a single-seat constituency.
Parliamentary elections were held in Ukraine on 21 July 2019. Originally scheduled to be held at the end of October, the elections were brought forward after newly inaugurated President Volodymyr Zelenskyy dissolved parliament on 21 May 2019, during his inauguration. The elections resulted in an outright majority, a novelty in Ukraine, for Zelenskyy's Servant of the People party, which won 254 seats.
Victoria Mykhailivna Voytsitska is a Ukrainian politician, former Member of the Parliament of Ukraine of the 8th Convocation, member of the parliamentary faction Samopomich Union. She was the Secretary of the Committee on Fuel-Energy, Nuclear Policies and Security.
Serhiy Ivanovych Kiral is a Ukrainian politician, Member of Parliament of Ukraine of 8th convocation from Samopomich Union and former Head of the Department for International Economy and Investments on Lviv City Council.
Oleksandr Valeriyovych Opanasenko is a Ukrainian politician, former Member of Parliament of Ukraine as a member of the Parliamentary faction Samopomich Union. Opanasenko did not return to parliament following the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election.
Tetiana Heorhiyivna Ostrikova is a Ukrainian politician and lawyer. She is a for member of parliament of Ukraine of the 8th convocation. Member of the parliamentary faction Samopomich Union. Member of the Intra-faction Deputies Union 'Deputy Control' and the Ukraine National Association of Lawyers.
Iryna Ihorivna Podoliak is a Ukrainian politician. She is a former People's Deputy of Ukraine, representing Ukraine's 116th electoral district in the 8th Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada as a member of Self Reliance.
Roman Sergiyovych Semenukha is a Ukrainian politician and former Member of Parliament of the Samopomich Union faction.
Ruslan Mykhaylovych Sydorovych is a Ukrainian politician and lawyer, former Member of Parliament as a member of the parliamentary faction Samopomich Union. Co-chair of the "Deputy Control" union. Sydorovych again took part in the July 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election for Samopomich as its number 10 on its national election list. But in the election the party won 1 seat while only scoring 0.62% of the national vote.
Oleksandr Vladyslavovych Tkachenko is a Ukrainian journalist, CEO and politician who has served as Ukraine's Minister of Culture and Information Policy since 4 June 2020.
Ruslan Oleksiyovych Stefanchuk is a Ukrainian politician, lawyer and Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada.
