Vasyl Protyvsikh
Personal details
Born (1946-10-16) October 16, 1946 (age 77)
Ivano-Frankivsk
Political partyIndependent

Vasyl Protyvsikh (Ukrainian: Василь Противсіх) (born Vasyl Vasylyovych Humenyuk, Ukrainian: Василь Васильович Гуменюк, born October 16, 1946[1]) is a Ukrainian politician. He is best known as a self-nominated candidate in the 2010 Ukrainian presidential election, for which he changed his second name to Protyvsikh (ukr. for "Against all").[2] During the 2010 election he received 0.16% of the votes.[3]

Biography

Vasyliy Humenyuk completed a law degree at the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv after serving in the Soviet army.[4] As a member of the Communist Party of Ukraine (although he insist he "never was and never will be a Leninist"[5]) Humenyuk was mayor of Yaremche from 1984 until the first democratic local elections in Ukraine in 1991.[6] Later he headed the customs service in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast.[4] Humenyuk was numbered number 23 at party list of the electoral bloc KUCHMA during the 2007 Ukrainian parliamentary election.[6]

Vasyliy nominated himself for the 2010 Ukrainian presidential election.[2] On October 2, 2009 he changed his second name to Protyvsikh, that can be translated as "Against-everyone".[2] Protyvsikh changed his surname to “express the opinions of all those citizens that are against all candidates and the disorder that Ukraine currently finds itself in”.[7]

Protyvsikh claims "friends from around the world" assisted him in obtained the ₴2.5 million deposit needed for his registration as presidential candidate. Protyvsikh considered Yulia Tymoshenko his main opponent in the presidential elections.[8]

Currently[when?] Protyvsikh is president of the Ivano-Frankivsk Chamber of Commerce.[2] Protyvsikh wants Ukraine to have a banking system as Switzerland.[9]

References

  1. ^ (in Ukrainian) Він, вона, воно - і проти всіх, 1+1 (November 8, 2009)
  2. ^ a b c d CEC registers two more candidates for Ukraine's president, Interfax-Ukraine (November 6, 2009)
  3. ^ (in Ukrainian) ЦВК оприлюднила офіційні результати 1-го туру виборів, Gazeta.ua (January 25, 2010)
  4. ^ a b Political Pulse: Presidential field takes shape, Kyiv Post (November 11, 2009)
  5. ^ (in Ukrainian) Василь Противсіх з Івано-Франківська хоче стати Президентом України, взявши за приклад «бацька» Лукашенка, з якого колись теж сміялись, Z I K (November 5, 2009)
  6. ^ a b (in Ukrainian) Василь Противсіх: колгоспник Лукашенко став президентом, чим я гірший? Archived 2009-11-10 at the Wayback Machine, ZAXID.NET (November 6, 2009)
  7. ^ Three candidates united by disgust with authorities, Kyiv Post (November 19, 2009)
  8. ^ Protyvsikh considers Tymoshenko his main opponent in presidential elections, Kyiv Post (November 10, 2009)
  9. ^ Protyvsikh votes for 'Ukrainian Switzerland', Kyiv Post (January 17, 2010)
Categories