Valeriy Voshchevsky

Valeriy Mykolayovych Voshchevsky (Ukrainian: Валерій Миколайович Вощевський) is Ukrainian entrepreneur and politician who served as Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine from December 2014 until September 2015.

Biography

Voshchevsky started his career as a Chernobyl disaster cleaner in 1991.^[1] He then had several jobs that lead to him heading in 1995 the corporation "Ahronaftoprodukt".^[1] In 2001 he became one of Agribusiness lobbyists in government, joining the Coordinating Council of the agricultural sector under the Kinakh Government.^[1] In 2002 he was appointed deputy head of the Department of internal policy of Presidential Administration Leonid Kuchma.^[1] In 2003 he held the position of First Deputy Minister of Economy and European Integration under Valery Khoroshkovsky.^[1] In 2000 Voschevsky became head of the Ukrainian Peasant Democratic Party; he held this post until 2008.^[1] In the 2002 parliamentary elections Voshchevsky was fifth on the election list of the electoral alliance Team of Winter Generation.^[2] The alliance won 2.0% of the popular vote and no seats.^[3] In the parliamentary elections of 2006, as a part of Lytvyn's People's Bloc", and in 2007, in the Peasants' Bloc "Agrarian Ukraine", he again failed to gain a parliamentary seat.^[1] From 2005 to 2006 and from 2008 to 2010 Voschevsky was chairman of the Board of JSC "SSC" Roads of Ukraine ".^[1] Voshchevsky headed the road construction and maintenance agency under former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich in March and April 2010.^[1][4] In the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election he was elected to parliament at number 8 in the list of the Radical Party of Oleh Lyashko.^[1] In parliament he became deputy head of the faction.^[1] At the time he was chairman of the Supervisory Board of OJSC "Chernihiv confectionery factory" Strela ".^[1] Voshchevsky became Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine supervising national ecology, infrastructure and construction for Radical Party in the second Yatsenyuk Government on 2 December 2014.^[5][6] Radical Party left the coalition on 1 September 2015 in protest over a vote in parliament involving a change to the Ukrainian Constitution that would lead to decentralization and greater powers for areas held by pro-Russian separatists.^[7] The same day Voshchevsky tendered in his resignation.^[6] Parliament accepted the resignation on 17 September 2015; after failing to pass the motion four times on 15 September 2015.^[6]

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