Liudmyla Pavlivna Suprun (Ukrainian: Людмила Павлівна Супрун; born 7 January 1965) is a Ukrainian politician who served as a People's Deputy of Ukraine from 1998 to 2006, representing Ukraine's 100th electoral district from 1998 to 2002 before being elected on the party list of For United Ukraine. She was a candidate in the 2010 Ukrainian presidential election.

Liudmyla Suprun
Людмила Супрун
Official portrait, 2002
People's Deputy of Ukraine
In office
12 May 1998 – 25 May 2006
Preceded byConstituency established (1998)
Succeeded byOleksandr Bilovol [uk] (2002)
Constituency
Personal details
Born (1965-01-07) 7 January 1965 (age 59)
Zaporizhzhia, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine)
Political partyPeople's Democratic Party
Other political
affiliations
SpouseMikolai Suprun[1]
ChildrenTetjana (1986), Vladyslava[1]
Residence(s)Kyiv, Ukraine[1]
OccupationPolitician, businesswoman[1]
Websitesuprun.com.ua

Biography edit

Liudmyla Pavlivna Suprun was born 7 January 1965 in the city of Zaporizhzhia, in southern Ukraine.[1] After graduating from Kyiv University, Suprun worked as an academic researcher till 1992. Since then she worked in the field of agriculture. In 1997 Suprun was recognized as "Business Woman Ukraine 1997".

During the 1998 Ukrainian parliamentary election she was elected into the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine's parliament) for Ukraine's 100th electoral district in Kirovohrad Oblast where she became a member of the faction of the People's Democratic Party. In 2002 Suprun was re-elected on a Labour Ukraine ticket[2] as part of For United Ukraine.[1] In the 2006 parliamentary election the People's Democratic Party took part in the alliance "Bloc of People's Democratic Parties" (Ukrainian: Блоку народно-демократичних партій) (together with the Democratic Union and the Democratic Party of Ukraine) but this alliance did not overcome the 3% threshold (winning only 0.49% of the votes) and therefore no seats. After taking responsibility for the defeat Valeriy Pustovoitenko resigned as leader of the People's Democratic Party. In his place the party was led by Suprun. In the 2007 parliamentary election, the People's Democratic Party again failed to win parliamentary election, this time participating as part of Election Bloc Liudmyla Suprun - Ukrainian Regional Asset.[3] The current Chairman of the party is still Liudmyla Suprun.

Suprun was a candidate in the 2010 Ukrainian presidential election nominated by People's Democratic Party,[4][5][6][7] during the election she received 0.19% of the votes.[8][9]

Suprun attempted to return to the Verkhovna Rada in the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election as an independent candidate in Ukraine's 101th electoral district, located in Kirovohrad Oblast. However, she finished third in the election with 17.1% of the vote.[10][11]

Suprun did not participate in the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election.[5][12]

In the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election Suprun again as an independent candidate tried and failed to win a parliamentary seat in Ukraine's 198th electoral district, located in Cherkasy Oblast.[5] She finished fourth with 4.32% of the votes.[13]

References edit

  1. ^ a b c d e f (in Ukrainian) Біографія Archived 2009-11-17 at the Wayback Machine, Official website of Liudmyla Suprun
  2. ^ Political Pulse: Presidential field takes shape, Kyiv Post (11 November 2009)
  3. ^ Women's Social Activism in the New Ukraine: Development and the Politics of Differentiation (New Anthropologies of Europe) by Sarah D. Phillips, Indiana University Press, ISBN 0-253-21992-2, ISBN 978-0-253-21992-3, page 58
  4. ^ CEC registers two more candidates for Ukraine's president Archived 2009-11-09 at the Wayback Machine, Interfax-Ukraine (November 6, 2009)
  5. ^ a b c "Електоральна пам'ять". ukr.vote.
  6. ^ (in Ukrainian) Народно-демократическая партия подала в ЦИК документы для регистрации лидера НДП Людмилы Супрун кандидатом в президенты Archived 2011-10-09 at the Wayback Machine, People's Democratic Party (6 November 2009)
  7. ^ "Новини 10.11.2009 р". cvk.gov.ua. Archived from the original on 14 August 2011.
  8. ^ "Електоральна пам'ять". ukr.vote.
  9. ^ (in Ukrainian) ЦВК оприлюднила офіційні результати 1-го туру виборів, Gazeta.ua (25 January 2010)
  10. ^ "Електоральна пам'ять". ukr.vote.
  11. ^ (in Ukrainian) Single-mandate constituency No. 101, Central Election Commission of Ukraine
  12. ^ Alphabetical Index of candidates in 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election, Central Election Commission of Ukraine
  13. ^ "Електоральна пам'ять". ukr.vote.

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