Ihor Markov

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Ihor Markov (Ukrainian: Ігор Олегович Марков; born on 18 January 1973 in Odessa) is an Ukrainian entrepreneur, founder and chairman of the Rodina Party and is a former deputy of Ukrainian parliament as a member of the Party of Regions faction.[2]

Biography

Markov was born in Odessa and graduated there from the Odessa Institute of Marine Engineering (degree in economics and business) and the Odessa State Economic University, majoring in banking.[2] From 1991 he has a business career in oil, media and design of housing companies (some of them founded by him).[2]

Markov began political activity in the Labour Ukraine for which he was a member of the Odessa City Council. In 2006 elections, he was elected to the Odessa City Council on the lists of the People's Opposition Bloc of Natalia Vitrenko.[2] But then formed his own parliamentary group for the by him created Rodina Party.[2]

During the 28 October 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election Markov (officially registered as an independent candidate[3]) won single-member constituency No. 133 (Kyivsky Raion in Odessa), collecting 26.6% of the vote.[4] Markov was over 6% ahead of his main rival, Party of Regions candidate Honcharenko.[4] And thus Markov was elected into the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine's parliament).[5] Police officers had documented the use of pens with disappearing ink in at least 40 polling stations in constituency No. 133 on 28 October 2012.[4] Markov joined the Party of Regions faction in the Verkhovna Rada.[6]

On 12 September 2013 the Higher Administrative Court of Ukraine (under a lawsuit lodged by Yuriy Karmazin) ruled it impossible to reliably establish the results of the 28 October 2012 elections in constituency No. 133.[4] The court overturned the Central Election Commission of Ukraine (CEC) decision of 23 November 2012 regarding Markov’s registration as a People's Deputy of Ukraine and ordered the CEC to take measures to organize, prepare for and hold repeat elections in constituency No. 133.[4] Markov left the Party of Regions faction on 17 September 2013.[6] In the Ukrainian press he accused his former faction of tapping phones, bullied its members into voting and paying $5,000 monthly[nb 1] to its members for voting how they are told.[7][1] Markov "felt" that the court ruling that stripped him off a seat in parliament was retaliation against his independent position in the Party of Regions and his refusal to be bullied into voting how he was told.[7] Oleksandr Yefremov, Markov's former Party of Regions faction leader, refuted the accusations.[7]

Markov is co-founder and director of pro-Russian public organizations and he is seen as a radical Russian nationalist.[2] On 24 February2009 Markov — along with associates — beat up picketers who were protesting against raising of the monument of the Russian empress Catherine II in Odessa.[8][9] Morkov wants to transform Ukraine from its current presidential republic into a parliamentary republic.[7]

Notes

  1. ↑ Morkov added that Party of Regions deputies who deliver speeches in parliament received an extra $5,000.[1]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Markov describes Party of Regions faction as Titanic, Interfax-Ukraine (13 September 2013)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 (Russian) Small biography, LIGA
  3. ↑ (Russian) Single-mandate constituency number 133, RBC Ukraine
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Court strips MP Ihor Markov of his mandate, Interfax-Ukraine (12 September 2013)
  5. ↑ (Ukrainian) Список депутатів нової Верховної Ради, Ukrayinska Pravda (11 November 2012)
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Markov quits Party of Regions faction in parliament, Interfax-Ukraine (17 September 2013)
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 Former deputy says pro-presidential party run by bullies, Kyiv Post (16 September 2013)
  8. ↑ the proud Ukrainophobe (Russian)
  9. ↑ the Ukrainophobes in Odessa beat the Ukrainians, Youtube

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