Pavlo Bakunets

Pavlo Andriiovych Bakunets (Ukrainian: Павло Андрійович Бакунець) is a Ukrainian politician and a People's Deputy of the 9th Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada.[1]

Pavlo Bakunets
Павло Андрійович Бакунець
Personal details
Born (1987-07-10) 10 July 1987
Yavoriv, Lviv Oblast
Nationality Ukraine
Political partySamopomich
Alma materUkrainian Catholic University

Biography

Pavlo Andriiovych Bakunets was born on July 10, 1987, in Yavoriv, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine. He received a BA from the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv, also attended UCU's Lviv Business School,[2] and graduated from the University of Lviv.

Bakunets became a representative on the local council of Yavoriv,[3] and was on the ethics committee. From 2014 to 2015, he was the secretary of Yavoriv Municipality, and in 2015, he was elected mayor of Yavoriv, a position he held until 2019. He was the leader of the Yavoriv branch of the Self Reliance political party,[4] and is the cofounder of Youth of Yavoriv Raion, an NGO.

Parliamentary Activity

On August 29, 2019, Bakunets became a Member of Ukrainian Parliament.[5] In the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election, he was elected in Ukraine's 122nd electoral district and received 14.84% of the vote, a plurality.[6]

Although elected a member of Self Reliance (the only Self Reliance MP elected in 2019), he joined the Trust parliamentary group once in the Verkhovna Rada, a move which was opposed by Self Reliance leader Oksana Syroyid.[7]

In the Verkhovna Rada, he holds a number of positions. Bakunets is a member of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Law and Political Affairs.[7] Beyond that, he is:

  • The deputy of the group of interparliament connections with the Republic of Cuba
  • A member of interparliament connections with the Republic of Poland.
  • A member of interparliament connections with the United States.

Electoral history

2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election
2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election, 122nd constituency[8]
Party Candidate Votes %
Self Reliance Pavlo Bakunets 13,438 14.8%
Voice (Ukrainian political party) Vitaliy Andreyko 12,360 13.7%
Independent Roman Demchyna 9,820 10.8%
Civil Position Andriy Duma 9,639 10.6%
SN Andriy Shumskyi 8,008 8.8%
YeS Ihor Camardak 7,732 8.5%
Svoboda Mykola Zinko 6,058 6.7%
Batkivshchyna Yevhen Rybchynskyi 4,408 4.9%
Rukh Petro Shot 3,996 4.4%
Independent Ihor Muravsky 2,930 3.2%
Others 12,141 13.3%
Total votes 90,530 100.0
Self Reliance gain from Independent

References
  1. "infoHeaderExt". Itd.rada.gov.ua. Retrieved 2020-02-27.
  2. "Український Католицький Університет". Archived from the original on 2020-01-29. Retrieved 2020-01-29.
  3. "Яворівська міська рада | Інформаційний сайт Яворівської Міської Ради". Yavoriv-rada.gov.ua. 2019-02-27. Retrieved 2020-02-27.
  4. "Samopomich – Official site of "Samopomich Union"". Archived from the original on 2019-09-11. Retrieved 2020-01-29.
  5. "Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine". Iportal.rada.gov.ua. Retrieved 2020-02-27.
  6. "Електоральна пам'ять". ukr.vote.
  7. Self-help and elections: will the party be able to return to political orbit?, Civil movement "Chesno" (25 May 2020) (in Ukrainian)
  8. Позачергові вибори народних депутатів України 2019: Відомості про підрахунок голосів виборців на одномандатному виборчому окрузі №122 — сайт Центральної виборчої комісії (архів)
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