Last Thursday, the People's Front submitted its lists to the Central Election Commission and posted them on its website on Saturday. However, when compared with what Oleksandr Turchynov announced at the party congress,INSIDER has found that there have been significant changes in the majority electoral system.
According to the law, the party had no right to change candidates after the congress. After a day of deliberation, the party announced that they had been finalized at another congress, held late in the evening on September 14.
INSIDER decided to find out who the prime minister and speaker's political forces are leading in the elections, and why the list of majoritarian candidates was amended after the congress.
When 2+2=5
The People's Front congress took place on Sunday, September 14. Oleksandr Turchynov spent 20 minutes reading out the list of candidates for the multi-mandate and single-mandate constituencies. He had a single copy of the list, with edits made in pen.
In the following days, the list was not made public, and when asked where it could be obtained, party employees replied: “It’s stuck with (Elena) Ledovskikh.”
The list was only released on Saturday, after it was submitted to the Central Election Commission. It turned out, for example, that candidates in some constituencies had been changed. The largest number of new faces was in the Dnipropetrovsk region.
For example, Turchynov announced that Tamila Ulyanova, leader of the Dnipropetrovsk Lustration Committee, would be the party's candidate in the 27th district. However, Ulyanova is not on the current list. Instead, Vadym Morenets is running, and Google is unable to provide any information about him.
This is how Turchynov announced the list, but now it looks different.
This is what the list looks like from Saturday.
"During negotiations between the People's Front and the Volya party regarding the nomination of a single list for the people's parliamentary elections, my candidacy could have been considered a single, agreed-upon candidate for the 27th single-mandate majoritarian constituency in Dnipropetrovsk. Since no agreement was ultimately reached between the political forces, I was nominated by the Volya party, of which I am a member, for the 26th constituency," Ulyanova explained to INSIDER.
The three candidates Turchynov named for Dnipropetrovsk have been replaced by 17 new ones. Among them is Anatoliy Klymenko in the 29th district. His initials match those of a former deputy governor and confidant of Viktor Yanukovych. In the 39th district, it's former Party of Regions member Oleksandr Verchenko, and in the 35th, it's Dmytro Bychkov of the "Ukraine of the Future" party. Ihor Kolomoisky's deputy, Svyatoslav Oliynyk, is affiliated with the latter political party.
In the 58th district of the Donetsk region, Vadim Troyan, deputy commander of the Azov Battalion, appeared on the list of candidates (Read more about it Tsikavy facts about the new V.O. Heads of the National Police: who is Vadim Troyan?).
In the Zaporizhzhia region, instead of Igor Mykhailenko in the 78th district, the head of GAZ INVEST LLC, Oleksandr Berezhetsky (declared at the congress in the 81st), is already running, and instead of Natalia Avramenko in the 79th, Oleg Kondratevich, the head of the State
"A group of energy market entrepreneurs."
A candidate has emerged in the 115th district Ivan Vasyunik, one of Viktor Yushchenko's allies, former deputy prime minister, and first deputy head of the Presidential Secretariat. His brother is a member of the leadership of the Lviv branch of the Front for Change and is on the party's list.
In the 124th district, the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs is running with the support of the Front Danylo Lubkivskyi, whom Turchynov also did not announce at the congress, and in 192 – Myroslav Musiy, who in 2012 already ran for people's deputy with the help of Batkivshchyna.
At the same time, they disappeared from the list Vladimir Vyatrovich, who refused to run, Vladimir Rovchak and several other candidates.
Leonid Yemets, a representative of the People's Front at the Central Election Commission, responded to INSIDER's question about the differences in the lists by saying that there could be no new people on them.
"There can't be any new ones. And some of those mentioned have resigned. They've changed their minds. It happens," Yemets noted.
He did not answer the question about where the 17 new candidates for the Dnipropetrovsk region came from.
The fact is that, by law, candidates can only be approved at a congress. "After that, the party can only revoke their nomination, which would mean no one from the party would be represented in that district," one CEC member explained to INSIDER. He also lamented that the Central Election Commission can no longer oversee the nomination process because the law no longer requires a commission representative to attend the congress.
INSIDER contacted the party's press service with a similar question, and after several hours of deliberation, they reported that there had been another congress stage—late in the evening of September 14—and that's when they added the candidates.
But journalists who attended the congress insist it was closed. This means there could not have been another stage.
One of the candidates reported that regional representatives had gathered at headquarters several days earlier, but did not answer the question of whether they had met specifically on the evening of the 14th, and did not say anything about additions to the candidate lists.
The passing twenty
As for the list for the multi-mandate constituency, it remained unchanged.
The top ten included the “fathers” of the party – No. 1 is the Prime Minister Yatsenyuk, Speaker No. 3 Alexander Turchinov, No. 6 Minister of Internal Affairs Arsen Avakov, as well as people who must create a positive perception of it.
2nd place on stage went to Tatiana Chernovol — a social activist and journalist who was brutally beaten during the Maidan protests and lost her husband in the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO). In the last elections, she ran for the Rada in the Lviv region with the support of Batkivshchyna, but lost. Yaroslav Dubnevich.
Chornovol joined the Front list despite a public scandal with the Cabinet of Ministers and accusations that the government had failed to pass its anti-corruption law.
4th place went to the Maidan commandant Andrey Parubiy, who missed only the days of the crackdown and February 18, because he was hospitalized at the time. In February, he was appointed to the National Security and Defense Council, but resigned in early August due to disagreement with the president's line on peace negotiations.
5th place went to the commander of the volunteer battalion "Peacemaker" To Andrey Teteruk, and the 7rd - Victoria Syumar — former deputy secretary of the National Security and Defense Council. During the Maidan protests, she was an active member of its student section, and later of the Maidan council.
8 was Vyacheslav Kirilenko, a people's deputy of the last several convocations, who has made little impression in the last two years, but has a positive reputation since the time of the student Revolution on Granite.
9th place Liliya Grinevich, a people's deputy from Batkivshchyna in the last convocation, one of Arseniy Yatsenyuk's closest allies, who managed to implement education reform (more about it in the article Liliya Grinevich: The Story of an Illiterate but Armed Minister).
The Dnepr-1 battalion commander rounds out the top ten. Yuri Bereza.
Sociologists currently don't rate Yatsenyuk's party's chances very highly: according to the latest surveys by the Socis Center, they were given 5,6%. If this trend continues, the political force is unlikely to secure more than 15-20 seats in parliament. However, the party is hoping for 30-40 seats.
The list of those who have a chance to get into parliament includes the Minister of Justice Pavel Petrenko (11) (Read more about it in the article Pavel Petrenko, the "pocket" boy of the Yatsenyuk "Family"), one of the closest allies of Arseniy Yatsenyuk and Andriy Pyshnyy. The latter, incidentally, was not included in the list, but remained working at Oschadbank.
Number 12 - Sergey Pashinsky, former acting head of the Presidential Administration and a close associate of Turchynov. The "lucky" number 13 is the head of Information Resistance. Dmitry Tymchuk.
Number 14 was given to a close associate of Yatsenyuk. Nikolai Martynenko, called a "carcass generator" in Batkivshchyna a year ago by Yuriy Lutsenko. After Yatsenyuk's appointment, Martynenko and another Yatsenyuk associate Andrey Ivanchuk They were called the main lobbyists. In this election, Martynenko is the deputy head of the campaign headquarters and also the one negotiating the approval of the single-member constituency with the Poroshenko Bloc. He is also working with Ivanchuk, who received 16th place on the list.
Between Martynenko and Ivanchuk, 15th on the list is Ludmila Denisova — the Minister of Social Policy of Ukraine, who just six months ago was very worried about Yulia Tymoshenko.
Also ranking very high in 17th place was the inconspicuous MP Ihor Vasyunyk, brother of the aforementioned Ivan Vasyunyk. Until 2012, Ihor Vasyunyk was known as a businessman. He was the founder and co-founder of numerous companies in Lviv, Kyiv, and Volyn, involved in construction, finance, and tourism. Interestingly, after Yatsenyuk's appointment as prime minister, Vasyunyk attempted to establish contact with the disgraced Yushchenko-era head of Naftogaz, Oleksiy Ivchenko.
18 was Ruslan Lukyanchuk, close to Oleksandr Turchynov and former head of the party's treasury in Batkivshchyna. And 19th place went to Valeriy Lunchenko, a former MP and former governor of Zakarpattia, close to Yatsenyuk.
The people's deputy rounds out the top 20 Tatiana Donets, who wasn't particularly active in the previous parliamentary term. Before 2012, Donetsk was known primarily from tabloid news. And she is said to have been included on the Batkivshchyna list through Mykola Martynenko's patronage, as she is a close friend of his wife.
At risk
The third ten of the Front list opens Anton Gerashchenko — Advisor to the Minister of Internal Affairs. Behind him, 22nd, comes Yuri Savchuk — People's Deputy, who entered the Rada in 2012 from the UDAR party. 23rd — Andrey Levus, deputy head of the SBU, close to Parubiy.
In 24th place Denis Dzenzersky, who entered the previous parliament under Yatsenyuk's quota along with other Dnipropetrovsk businessmen. He is the son of the president of the Dnipropetrovsk industrial corporation Vesta (Wind Energy Solar Storage Technologies). Together with his father, he is among the 200 richest people in the country. He is friends with Tatyana Donetsk.
The 25th is the people's deputy Vladimir Shkvarilyuk, 26th – leader of the Krasnolimansk “Front of Zmin” Konstantin Mateichenko, against whom a criminal case was opened on the eve of the elections, so that he would not interfere with Sergei Klyuev in the district.
The 27th number was given to the already mentioned Elena Ledovskikh, close to Martynenko. She handles the party's "field" and legal issues. The 28th is Elena Kolganova from Yatsenyuk's team, responsible for organizing public events, or "the stage" for short.
The 29th place on the list was given to the deputy Sergey Faermark, one of the directors of the Odessa "Stalkanat", which became famous in 2012 due to attacks by "overseer" Yuriy Ivanyushchenko Ivan Abramov.
The fourth ten is opened by the head of the Rivne headquarters of "Batkivshchyna" in 2012, Vadym Sydorchuk, 31st - the former mayor of Ternopil, a millionaire The Mortgage Novel.
The 32nd is the commander of the Kyiv-1 battalion Yevgeny DadeyOn the Maidan, he led the 7th Self-Defense Hundred. Originally from Reni in the Odessa region, his father was a member of the Reni City Council representing Our Ukraine and chaired the city council's standing committee on public utilities and privatization.
33rd - Ostap Semerak, a Cabinet Minister. He served as a member of parliament for Batkivshchyna several times, but later switched his allegiance to Yatsenyuk when he was in charge of his foreign travel.
34th place is occupied by Nikolay Knyazhitsky (Read more about it in the article Nikolai Knyazhitsky: the TV swindler), former CEO of TVi television channel and creator of Espresso TV.
In addition, the top 50 included a deputy from the previous convocation. Valery Babenko, who served in the army with Turchynov (30), advisor to the Minister of Justice Georgy Logvinsky (37), acting head of the National Commission for Financial Services Maxim Polyakov (39), Avakov's deputy Nikolay Velichkovich (40), deputy Nikolai Khmil (42), Deputy Minister of Ecology, Turchynov's man Pavel Unguryan (43), journalist Sergey Vysotsky (44), head of the Zaporizhzhia organization of employers Petr Vanat (41), a member of the Kharkiv City Council and, according to local media, Avakov's man Igor Kotvitsky (48), analyst at the Razumkov Center Pavel Pinzenik (49; Mykola Martynenko is a member of the Center’s public council), one of the oldest employees of the press service of Batkivshchyna and Turchynov Alexander Sochka (50)
Deputies in the majoritarian system
Despite the fact that the People's Front has nominated candidates in almost all majoritarian constituencies, it is unlikely to be able to count on a massive victory for its representatives.
Eleven people's deputies elected in 2012 from the Batkivshchyna party lists will try to defend their seats in parliament.
It is a Anatoly Dyriv, elected in the 86th district. He will run in the 94th Roman Romanyuk, who ran against the odious Tatyana Zasukha in 2012. As is well known, to ensure the Party of Regions candidate's victory, the court overturned the votes of thousands of people, and the Central Election Commission refused to establish a winner in the district.
In Lviv region, current deputies will try to repeat their success Vasily Pazinyak and Lidiya Kateljak (122nd and 123rd constituencies). In Chernivtsi Oblast, the Minister of Infrastructure will run in the 204th constituency. Maxim Burbak (Read more about it in the article Maksym Burbak: How Chernivtsi residents sat on Donetsk's "golden toilet") Previously, he was responsible for the Front for Change in this region. And in the 202nd district of the same region, another Front member will be running – Alexander Fishchuk.
Three more MPs, supported by the Front, will defend their positions in the Sumy region. These are Oleg Medunitsa (157), former governor of the region Vladimir Shulga (158) and the former director of Niva-Agrotech LLC Irina Kupreychik.
Kyiv will again go to the single-member constituency system Ksenia Lyapina (216) and Leonid Emets (221)
In some districts, the Front supported candidates who had participated in the 2012 elections but lost. For example, in the Odessa region, in the 133rd district, Alexander Ostapenko, who only took third place here in 2012. He is running in the 139th Alexander Gorin — a member of the Yuzhny City Council. In 2012, he withdrew his candidacy in favor of Olga Gerasimyuk. He is running in the 140th district. Sergei Shumsky — a deputy of the Illichivsk City Council and entrepreneur, who lost to David Zhvania in 2012. In the 149th district in Poltava Oblast, the Front supported Andrei Reku, who also ran in the last election but lost.
Friends, relatives, acquaintances
In addition to Denis Dzenzersky, his partners are also vying for a seat in the Rada. The head of the Dzenzerskys' subsidiary, Vesta-Plast, is running in the 25th district. Vladislav Kotov, and according to the 40th - Dmitry Yashchenko, parliamentary assistant to the MP.
In the Zaporizhzhia region, in the 76th district, there is Maxim Vanat, and his father, Petro, is number 41 on the list. The Vanata family controls the Intourist Hotel in Zaporizhzhia.
In the Kharkiv region, a father and son are running in two adjacent districts. ShakhmatenkoThey run the Kolos agricultural firm.
Another representative of Stalkanat is running in the 37th district of the Dnipropetrovsk region. Sergey Lavrinenko.
The Kharkiv region is traditionally overseen by Arsen Avakov. Many districts there feature candidates who ran in the 2012 elections. For example, the former head of the Ordzhonikidze district branch of Batkivshchyna is running in the 172nd district. Alexander Svetlichny, a former border guard and internationalist soldier.
In 169th place goes the editor-in-chief of the magazine "Accountant" Alexander Kirsch, who also lost in 2012.
An advisor to Governor Igor Baluta is running in the 171st district. Inna ChuykoAnd in the 168th district it's going on Ivan Varchenko, who worked as an advisor to Avakov during his governorship. That winter, Varchenko led the Kharkiv Euromaidan.
Aty-baty, the battalion commanders were coming
The People's Front Party leads in the number of ATO veterans recruited to its military council. However, most of them are running in single-member constituencies.
A company commander from the Aidar Battalion is running for election in the 22nd district of Volyn. Igor Lapin (Zola). In the 58th district of the Donetsk region there is Vadim Troyan - deputy commander of "Azov". The commander of "Azov" himself Andrey Beletsky He ran in Kyiv's 217th constituency as an independent candidate, despite being a member of the People's Front's military council. Party lawyers also assisted him in preparing his election documents.
In the Ivano-Frankivsk region, in the 85th district, he will try to get into parliament. Andrey Tiron, commander of the second operational battalion of the National Guard. A Ukrainian strongman is also running in the neighboring district. Roman Virastyuk.
A Cossack is walking through the scandalous 95th district in Irpen. Mikhail Gavrilyuk, who was tortured in the cold by the Berkut in January. He is running in the 97th district, in Brovary. Nikolay Semenyaka, a private in the 8th hundred of the "Afghans" from the Maidan Self-Defense Force. He's going through the 103rd district. Vitaly Pikulin, combat commander of the 3rd special forces regiment "Alexandria".
In 117, with the support of the Front, one of the coordinators of the Lviv Euromaidan is trying to get into power Roman BrezitskyAnd in the Nikolaev region, the leader of the 20th hundred of the Maidan is running Taras Zembitsky.
A millionaire is running in Kyiv's 220th district. Vyacheslav Konstantinovsky, who allegedly sold his Rolls-Royce Phantom and volunteered to help the ATO. Together with his twin brother, he owns the Carte Blanche and Puzata Khata restaurant chains.
(Read more about it in the article Vyacheslav and Alexander Konstantinovsky: How the "Russian mafia" became "Ukrainian patriots")
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