Ihor Palytsia

Ihor Palytsia
Ігор Палиця
Governor of Odessa Oblast
Incumbent
Assumed office
May 6, 2014[1]
Preceded by Volodymyr Nemyrovsky[1]
Personal details
Born December 10, 1972[2]
Lutsk, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union[2]
Political party Independent[3]

Ihor Palytsia (Ukrainian: Ігор Палиця) is a Ukrainian businessmen, independent politician and since 6 May 2014 Governor of Odessa Oblast.[3][1]

Biography

Palytsia was born 10 December 1972 in Lutsk.[2] In 1994 he graduated from the Lesya Ukrainka East European National University in his place of birth.[2] 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.[2] In the 2007 Ukrainian parliamentary election he was elected MP (as #68 on the party list) of Our Ukraine–People's Self-Defense Bloc.[2] 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.[4] He did not enter any faction in the Verkhovna Rada (parliament).[5]

Palytsia was appointed Governor of Odessa Oblast on 6 May 2014, 4 days after the 2 May 2014 Odessa clashes that killed more than 40 people.[6][1][3][7]

In the spring of 2014 the Ukrainian press mentioned Palytsia as being close to Ukrainian oligarch (and then fellow Governor of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast[8]) Ihor Kolomoyskyi.[6][3][5]

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.[9][10] He stayed on as Governor of Odessa Oblast.[11]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Nemyrovsky dismissed as head of Odesa regional administration, Interfax-Ukraine (6 May 2014)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 (Ukrainian) Short bio,
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 (Ukrainian) Governor of Odessa Region appointed Ihor Palytsia, LIGA (6 May 2014)
  4. ↑ (Ukrainian) Results constituency #22, NBnews
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 (Ukrainian) Turchynov gave the Odessa area to Kolomoyskiy's man, Ukrayinska Pravda (6 May 2014)
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Kiev hands Odessa post to new governor in effort to end uprising, Financial Times (6 May 2014)
  7. ↑ How did Odessa's fire happen?, BBC News (6 May 2014)
  8. ↑ Putin Gets Personal in Ukraine, Bloomberg View (Mar 4, 2014)
  9. ↑ Poroshenko Bloc to have greatest number of seats in parliament, Ukrinform (8 November 2014)
    People's Front 0.33% ahead of Poroshenko Bloc with all ballots counted in Ukraine elections - CEC, Interfax-Ukraine (8 November 2014)
    Poroshenko Bloc to get 132 seats in parliament - CEC, Interfax-Ukraine (8 November 2014)
  10. ↑ (Ukrainian) Full electoral list of Poroshenko Bloc, Ukrayinska Pravda (19 September 2014)
  11. ↑ The head YEAH Igor Palitsa decided to undergo procedure of lustration (17 December 2014)

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