Oleksandr Feldman
Olexandr Borisovich Feldman (Ukrainian: Олександр Борисович Фельдман) (born January 6, 1960, Kharkiv) is a Ukrainian politician and public figure of Jewish origin, People's Deputy of Ukraine (since 2002), businessman, multi-millionaire. One of the most influential people in Kharkiv.[1] In 2013 he entered the rating of the hundred richest Ukrainians of the Ukrainian magazine Forbes, finishing 35th ($ 287m).[2] Since June 2015, the co-chairman of the political party Our Land.
Biography
He is married and has two sons[3] and a grandson David (2008).[1] He graduated from the Kharkiv National University in 2002 as an economist.[4]
He is a member of the Ukrainian Parliament and president of the Ukrainian Jewish Committee.[5] Feldman is also a co-founder of the Institute of Human Rights and the Prevention of Extremism and Xenophobia.[6]
Feldman first entered the Ukrainian parliament after winning a single-member district located in Kharkiv during the 2002 Ukrainian parliamentary election.[7] In parliament he joined the United Ukraine faction and when that party merged with Batkivshchyna Feldman joined this party too.[7][8][9][10]
Batkivshchyna was a part of the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc during the 2006 Ukrainian parliamentary election and 2007 Ukrainian parliamentary election Feldman was re-elected into parliament on a party ticket of this bloc of political parties.[7][11] He also was of its Kharkiv regional party organization.[7] In March 2011 Feldman left the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc faction in parliament and joined the Party of Regions.[7] He did so citing too much influence of nationalism in the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc.[7]
In the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election Feldman won a parliamentary seat in a single-member district located in Kharkiv for Party of Regions.[7]
In the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election Feldman as an independent candidate won the same single-member district as in 2012 with 64.94% of the votes.[7][12]
Feldman joined the party Our Land in August 2015.[13]
In the July 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election Feldman was re-elected to parliament after again winning electoral district 174 in Kharkiv, again as an independent candidate.[14][15] This time with 37.24% of the votes (slightly 4% more than runner-up Viktoria Alekseychuk of the Servant of the People party).[14][16] In parliament he joined the Opposition Platform — For Life faction.[17] For this party Feldman was candidate in the October 2020 Kharkiv mayoral election.[18] He finished second with 14.32%, losing to incumbent mayor Hennadiy Kernes.[19]
References
- "Фельдман Александр. ДОСЬЕ :: Персональный сайт Сергея Руденко". www.rudenko.kiev.ua. Retrieved 2017-11-10.
- "Форбс" оценил сотню самых богатых украинцев в 55 млрд. долларов (in Russian). Retrieved 2017-11-10.
- Биография. Александр Фельдман (in Russian). Retrieved 2017-11-10.
- "Довідка: Фельдман Олександр Борисович". dovidka.com.ua. Retrieved 2017-11-10.
- Daniel K. Eisenbud (March 10, 2014). "Ukrainian Jewish Committee: Russian claims of anti-Semitism in Crimea are lies, propaganda". Jerusalem Post.
- "Ukrainian Jews Fear for Their Safety – 'We Are on High Alert'". The Algemeiner. December 8, 2013.
- (in Russian)/(website has automatic Google Translate option) Short bio, LIGA
- (in Ukrainian) Всеукраїнське об'єднання "Батьківщина" All-Ukrainian Union Batkivshchyna, RBC Ukraine
- ORANGE COALITION CRUMBLES AHEAD OF POLLS, The Jamestown Foundation (30 November 2005)
- (in Ukrainian) Партія «Єдина Україна» Party "United Ukraine" Archived 2010-10-23 at the Wayback Machine, poli.in.ua
- (in Ukrainian) Всеукраїнське об'єднання „Батьківщина“, Database DATA
- (in Ukrainian) Candidates and winner for the seat in constituency 174 in the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election, RBK Ukraine
- (in Ukrainian) Mayors of major cities joined the party "Our Land" and go to the polls, Espreso TV (4 August 2015)
- Election of Verkhovna Rada 2019 District 174 Kharkivska oblast, URK.VOTE
- https://www.ukrinform.ua/rubric-elections/2750935-cvk-viznala-obranimi-vze-84-narodnih-deputati.html
- https://cvk.gov.ua/pls/vnd2019/wp040pt001f01=919pf7331=174.html
- https://vybory.pravda.com.ua/articles/2019/10/31/7150084/
- (in Ukrainian) Local elections. Kharkiv: between Kernes and Kernes, The Ukrainian Week (29 August 2019)
- (in Ukrainian) Kharkiv, the votes in the mayoral election were counted: who wins and whether there will be a second round, UNIAN (4 November 2020)