Ihor Palytsia

Ihor Petrovych Palytsia (Ukrainian: Ігор Петрович Палиця) is a Ukrainian businessmen and politician. From May 2014 till May 2015[4] he worked as Governor of Odessa Oblast.[5][1] In November 2015 Palytsia was elected chairman of the Volyn Oblast regional parliament.[6][7] In the July 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election Palytsia won a seat as an independent candidate.[8] In parliament he joined the For the Future faction.[9]

Ihor Palytsia
Ігор Палиця
Governor of Odessa Oblast
In office
6 May 2014[1] – 30 May 2015[2]
Preceded byVolodymyr Nemyrovsky[1]
Succeeded byMikheil Saakashvili
Personal details
Born (1972-12-10) December 10, 1972[3]
Lutsk, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union[3]
Political partyUKROP (2015-2020)
For the Future (since 2020)

Biography

Palytsia was born 10 December 1972 in Lutsk.[3] In 1994, he graduated from the Lesya Ukrainka East European National University in his place of birth.[3] Since 1993 he has been a businessman and he was a board member of (the national oil and gas company of Ukraine) Naftogaz from 2003 till 2007.[3] Palytsia unsuccessfully took part in the 2006 Ukrainian parliamentary election for the Peasant Party of Ukraine.[10] The party won 0,31% of the votes.[11]

In the 2007 Ukrainian parliamentary election Palytsia was elected MP (as #68 on the party list) of Our Ukraine–People's Self-Defense Bloc.[3] In the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election he was elected with 40.27% of the votes in simple-majority constituency #22 (situated in Lutsk) as a non-party affiliate.[12] He did not enter any faction in the Verkhovna Rada (parliament).[13]

Palytsia was appointed by Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko Governor of Odessa Oblast on 6 May 2014, 4 days after the 2 May 2014 Odessa clashes that killed more than 40 people.[14][1][5][15]

In the spring of 2014, the Ukrainian press mentioned Palytsia as being close to Ukrainian oligarch (and then fellow Governor of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast[16]) Ihor Kolomoyskyi.[14][5][13]

In the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election Palytsia was again re-elected into parliament; this time after placing 34th on the electoral list of Petro Poroshenko Bloc.[17][18] He stayed on as Governor till 30 May 2015 when President Poroshenko appointed Mikheil Saakashvili Governor of Odessa Oblast.[2][19]

In July 2015 Palytsia became a member of the political council of the party UKROP.[7] On 26 November 2015 he was elected chairman of the Volyn Oblast regional parliament.[7][6]

In the July 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election Palytsia won a seat as an independent candidate.[20] In parliament he joined the For the Future faction.[21] May 2020 Palytsia was elected chairman of the For the Future party.[22] According to Palytsia For the Future is de-facto a continuation of UKROP.[22]

References
  1. Nemyrovsky dismissed as head of Odesa regional administration, Interfax-Ukraine (6 May 2014)
  2. "Saakashvili Confirmed As Governor Of Ukraine's Odesa Region". RFE/RL. 29 May 2015. Retrieved 30 May 2015.
    Georgian ex-President Saakashvili named Ukraine regional governor , BBC News (30 May 2015)
  3. (in Ukrainian) Short bio,
  4. http://www.president.gov.ua/documents/19532.html
  5. (in Ukrainian) Governor of Odessa Region appointed Ihor Palytsia, LIGA (6 May 2014)
  6. "Austrian ski resort of Semmering losing faith in Ukrainian oligarch investors". Deutsche Welle. Retrieved 22 December 2017.
  7. "Short biograph". LB.ua (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 29 March 2018.
  8. https://m.glavcom.ua/country/politics/vsya-kolomoyska-rat-chomu-u-zelenskogo-teper-bolit-golova-636021.html
  9. https://m.glavcom.ua/country/politics/vsya-kolomoyska-rat-chomu-u-zelenskogo-teper-bolit-golova-636021.html
  10. (in Ukrainian) Ihor Palytsia: Kolomoisky does not chase money like Poroshenko, Ukrayinska Pravda (8 September 2020)
  11. "Селянська партія України". DA-TA (in Ukrainian). Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 8 September 2020.
  12. (in Ukrainian) Results constituency #22, NBnews
  13. (in Ukrainian) Turchynov gave the Odessa area to Kolomoyskiy's man, Ukrayinska Pravda (6 May 2014)
  14. Kiev hands Odessa post to new governor in effort to end uprising, Financial Times (6 May 2014)
  15. How did Odessa's fire happen?, BBC News (6 May 2014)
  16. Putin Gets Personal in Ukraine, Bloomberg View (Mar 4, 2014)
  17. Poroshenko Bloc to have greatest number of seats in parliament Archived 2014-11-12 at the Wayback Machine, Ukrinform (8 November 2014)
    People's Front 0.33% ahead of Poroshenko Bloc with all ballots counted in Ukraine elections - CEC Archived 2014-11-12 at the Wayback Machine, Interfax-Ukraine (8 November 2014)
    Poroshenko Bloc to get 132 seats in parliament - CEC, Interfax-Ukraine (8 November 2014)
  18. (in Ukrainian) Full electoral list of Poroshenko Bloc, Ukrayinska Pravda (19 September 2014)
  19. The head YEAH Igor Palitsa decided to undergo procedure of lustration (17 December 2014)
  20. https://m.glavcom.ua/country/politics/vsya-kolomoyska-rat-chomu-u-zelenskogo-teper-bolit-golova-636021.html
  21. https://m.glavcom.ua/country/politics/vsya-kolomoyska-rat-chomu-u-zelenskogo-teper-bolit-golova-636021.html
  22. (in Ukrainian) Is Kolomoisky's party "For the Future" a new political project?, Civil movement "Chesno" (6 July 2020)
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