Oleh Leonidovych Meidych (Ukrainian: Олег Леонідович Мейдич; born 24 November 1970) is a Ukrainian businessman and politician currently serving as a People's Deputy of Ukraine from Ukraine's 18th electoral district, representing north-eastern Vinnytsia Oblast.[1]
Oleh Meidych | |
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Олег Мейдич | |
 Official portrait, 2019 | |
| People's Deputy of Ukraine | |
| Assumed office 29 August 2019 | |
| Preceded by | Ruslan Demchak |
| Constituency | Vinnytsia Oblast, No. 18 |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 24 November 1970 |
| Party | Batkivshchyna |
Early life
editMeidych waas boron on 24 November 1970 in Kalynivka, which was then part of the Ukrainian SSR in the Soviet Union.[2] He later received a higher education.[2]
Meidych is director of Kalinov Dairy Plant Ltd.[3] He has also founded the private enterprise "Prodholod", the agricultural company "Ivan Sirko Regiment", and the nonprofit "Wrestling Association of the Vinnytsia Oblast".[2][4]
Political career
editIn 2002 and 2010, he ran for the Vinnytsia Oblast Council, both times unsuccessfully as an independent candidate and later a candidate of the Socialist Party of Ukraine. Meidich worked as an assistant to People's Deputy Petro Gasyuk from 2007 to 2012.[4]
From 2015, Meidych was a member of the Vinnytsia Oblast Council, serving as head of the Batkivshchyna party in the council,[5] as well as a member of the Standing Committee on Regulation of Communal Property and Privatization.[3]
He was a proxy candidate of Yulia Tymoshenko in the 2019 Ukrainian presidential election.[6]
In the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election, Meidych was a successful candidate for People's Deputy of Ukraine, running in Ukraine's 18th electoral district as a member of Batkivshchyna. He currently serves as First Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Agrarian Policy and Land Relations in the Verkhovna Rada.[7]
References
edit- ↑ "Центральна виборча комісія - Вибори народних депутатів України 2019". www.cvk.gov.ua. Retrieved 14 January 2022.
- 1 2 3 "Мейдич Олег Леонідович". dovidka.com.ua. Retrieved 8 February 2026.
- 1 2 "Oleh Meidych". vinrada.gov.ua. Retrieved 14 January 2022.
- 1 2 "Мейдич Олег Леонідович — Біографія, Балотування, Фракції, Політична Агітація | ПолітХаб". www.chesno.org (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 14 January 2022.
- ↑ "Газета «День»". Сторінку не знайдено (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 14 January 2022.
- ↑ "Про реєстрацію довірених осіб кандидата на пост Президента України Тимошенко Ю.В. на чергових виборах Президента України 31 березня 2019 року в територіальних виборчих округах". Офіційний вебпортал парламенту України (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 14 January 2022.
- ↑ "Рада затвердила перелік, склад та керівництво усіх комітетів парламенту ІХ скликання. Повний список". ТСН.ua (in Ukrainian). 29 August 2019. Retrieved 14 January 2022.