Oksana Vasylivna Savchuk (Ukrainian: Окса́на Васи́лівна Савчу́к; née Kryvolinska[a]; born 20 March 1983) is a Ukrainian politician currently serving as a People's Deputy of Ukraine from Ukraine's 83rd electoral district since 29 August 2019 as a member of Svoboda. She is the only member of Svoboda to currently hold a seat in the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's parliament.
Oksana Savchuk | |
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Оксана Савчук | |
 Official portrait, 2019 | |
| People's Deputy of Ukraine | |
| Assumed office 29 August 2019 | |
| Preceded by | Oleksandr Shevchenko |
| Constituency | Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, No. 83 |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Oksana Vasylivna Kryvolinska 20 March 1983 Cherniv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine) |
| Political party | Svoboda |
| Alma mater | |
Biography
editOksana Vasylivna Kryvolinska[1] was born on 20 March 1983 in the village of Cherniv in Ukraine's western Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast. She graduated from the Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University, specialising in "Teaching of the Ukrainian language and Literature", and worked in a children's centre as deputy director of educational activities. She is co-founder and chair of the western region of the Ukrainian Democratic Women's Network non-governmental organisation, and has been active in the promotion of local activities in the city of Ivano-Frankivsk.[2]
In 2008, Kryvolinska married Andriy Savchuk. Together, they have one son, named Dmytro.[2]
Political career
editIn 2010, Savchuk was first elected to the Ivano-Frankivsk City Council as a member of Svoboda. She was later re-elected in 2015. From 2015 to 16 August 2019, she served as secretary of the Ivano-Frankivsk City Council.[1] In 2018, Savchuk and Ruslan Martsinkiv, mayor of Ivano-Frankivsk, were thanked by Pope Francis for their support for the construction of a Ukrainian Greek Catholic church in Ivano-Frankivsk.[3]
People's Deputy of Ukraine
editSavchuk ran in the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election as Svoboda's candidate for People's Deputy of Ukraine in Ukraine's 83rd electoral district, consisting of the city of Ivano-Frankivsk.[1] The seat was regarded by online newspaper LB as the "fiefdom" of Oleksandr Shevchenko, a local businessman tied to oligarch Ihor Kolomoyskyi, but Shevchenko dropped out of the race in June 2019. Savchuk won the election with 46.77% of the vote, ahead of Andriy Storzhuk, the candidate of Servant of the People and Shevchenko's assistant in the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine's parliament).[4] Savchuk was the only member of Svoboda to win in the 2019 parliamentary election among 249 candidates fielded.[5]
As the only member of Svoboda in the Verkhovna Rada, Savchuk does not officially belong to any parliamentary faction. She is a member of the Verkhovna Rada Transport and Infrastructure Committee, as well as the Kuban, Prykarpattia, and Friends of Ivano-Frankivsk inter-factional associations of People's Deputies.[1]
Savchuk studied at the National Academy for Public Administration from 2017[6] until her graduation in 2020.[2]
In 2022, following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Savchuk proposed a law to ban the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) (UOC-MP) from operating in Ukraine. Savchuk refused the notion that the UOC-MP's decision to declare itself autonomous was legitimate, writing on Facebook, "Manoeuvres of the Moscow Church in Ukraine will not pass. FSB agents in cassocks are trying to spread fog. It won't work!"[7]
Notes
edit- ^ Ukrainian: Криволі́нська
References
edit- ^ a b c d "Савчук Оксана Василівна" [Savchuk, Oksana Vasylivna]. Chesno (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 27 November 2022.
- ^ a b c "Савчук Оксана Василівна" [Savchuk, Oksana Vasylivna]. LB.ua (in Ukrainian). 4 December 2019. Retrieved 27 November 2022.
- ^ "Руслан Марцінків та Оксана Савчук отримали подяки від Папи Римського" [Ruslan Martsinkiv and Oksana Savchuk receive thanks from Pope]. Galician Correspondent (in Ukrainian). 1 July 2018. Retrieved 27 November 2022.
- ^ "Округ в Івано-Франківську виграла кандидат від "Свободи"" ["Svoboda" candidate wins in Ivano-Frankivsk district]. LB.ua (in Ukrainian). 22 July 2019. Retrieved 27 November 2022.
- ^ "Всеукраїнське обʼєднання "Свобода"" [All-Ukrainian Union "Svoboda"]. Chesno (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 27 November 2022.
- ^ "Савчук Оксана Василівна" [Savchuk, Oksana Vasylivna]. Slovo i Dilo (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 27 November 2022.
- ^ "«Агенти ФСБ в рясах хочуть напустити туману», – нардеп про Собор УПЦ МП" ["FSB agents in cassocks are trying to spread fog" -People's Deputy on UOC-MP]. Spiritual Front of Ukraine (in Ukrainian). 30 May 2022. Retrieved 27 November 2022.