Ihor Palytsia
Ігор Палиця
Palytsia in 2014
Member of the Verkhovna Rada
Assumed office
29 August 2019
Chairman of the Volyn Oblast Council
In office
26 November 2015 – 26 July 2019
Preceded byValentyn Viter
Succeeded byIryna Vakhovych
Governor of Odesa Oblast
In office
6 May 2014[1] – 30 May 2015[2]
Preceded byVolodymyr Nemyrovsky[1]
Succeeded byMikheil Saakashvili
Member of the Verkhovna Rada
In office
23 November 2007 – 6 May 2014
Personal details
Born (1972-12-10) December 10, 1972[3]
Lutsk, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union[3]
Political partyUKROP (2015-2020)
For the Future (since 2020)
ChildrenMariia Palytsia, Zakhar Palytsia

Ihor Petrovych Palytsia (Ukrainian: Ігор Петрович Палиця; born 10 December 1972) is a Ukrainian businessman and politician. From May 2014 until May 2015[4] he worked as Governor of Odesa Oblast.[5][1] In November 2015 Palytsia was elected chairman of the Volyn Oblast regional parliament.[6][7] In the July 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election Palytsia won a seat as an independent candidate.[8] In parliament he joined the For the Future faction.[8]

Biography

Palytsia was born 10 December 1972 in Lutsk.[3] In 1994, he graduated from the Lesya Ukrainka Volyn National University in his place of birth.[3] Since 1993 he has been a businessman and he was a board member of (the national oil and gas company of Ukraine) Naftogaz from 2003 till 2007.[3] Palytsia unsuccessfully took part in the 2006 Ukrainian parliamentary election for the Peasant Party of Ukraine.[9] The party won 0,31% of the votes.[10]

In the 2007 Ukrainian parliamentary election Palytsia was elected MP (as #68 on the party list) of Our Ukraine–People's Self-Defense Bloc.[3] In the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election he was elected with 40.27% of the votes in simple-majority constituency #22 (situated in Lutsk) as a non-party affiliate.[11] He did not enter any faction in the Verkhovna Rada (parliament).[12]

Palytsia was appointed by Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko Governor of Odesa Oblast on 6 May 2014, 4 days after the 2 May 2014 Odesa clashes that killed more than 40 people.[13][1][5][14]

In the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election Palytsia was again re-elected into parliament; this time after placing 34th on the electoral list of Petro Poroshenko Bloc.[15][16] He stayed on as Governor till 30 May 2015 when President Poroshenko appointed Mikheil Saakashvili Governor of Odesa Oblast.[2][17]

In July 2015 Palytsia became a member of the political council of the party UKROP.[7] On 26 November 2015 he was elected chairman of the Volyn Oblast regional parliament.[7][6]

In the July 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election Palytsia won a seat as an independent candidate.[8] In parliament he joined the For the Future faction.[8] May 2020 Palytsia was elected chairman of the For the Future party.[18] According to Palytsia For the Future is de facto a continuation of UKROP.[18]

Political image

In the spring of 2014, the Ukrainian press mentioned Palytsia as being close to Ukrainian oligarch (and then fellow Governor of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast[19]) Ihor Kolomoyskyi.[13][5][12] In August 2021 Ukrainska Pravda reported that Palytsia and Kolomoyskyi no longer shared business assets.[20]

Awards

  • Honored Economist of Ukraine (September 2004).
  • Order of Merit, 3rd class (January 2009).[21]
  • Recipient of the Yevhen Chykalenko Prize (October 2013)[22]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Nemyrovsky dismissed as head of Odesa regional administration, Interfax-Ukraine (6 May 2014)
  2. 1 2 "Saakashvili Confirmed As Governor Of Ukraine's Odesa Region". RFE/RL. 29 May 2015. Retrieved 30 May 2015.
    Georgian ex-President Saakashvili named Ukraine regional governor , BBC News (30 May 2015)
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 (in Ukrainian) Short bio,
  4. ↑ "УКАЗ ПРЕЗИДЕНТА УКРАЇНИ № 303/2015 - Офiцiйне представництво Президента України". www.president.gov.ua. Archived from the original on 2015-06-02.
  5. 1 2 3 (in Ukrainian) Governor of Odesa Region appointed Ihor Palytsia, LIGA (6 May 2014)
  6. 1 2 "Austrian ski resort of Semmering losing faith in Ukrainian oligarch investors". Deutsche Welle. Retrieved 22 December 2017.
  7. 1 2 3 "Short biograph". LB.ua (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 29 March 2018.
  8. 1 2 3 4 "Вся коломойська рать. Чому у Зеленського тепер болить голова?". 29 October 2019.
  9. ↑ (in Ukrainian) Ihor Palytsia: Kolomoisky does not chase money like Poroshenko, Ukrainska Pravda (8 September 2020)
  10. ↑ "Селянська партія України". DA-TA (in Ukrainian). Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 8 September 2020.
  11. ↑ (in Ukrainian) Results constituency #22, NBnews
  12. 1 2 (in Ukrainian) Turchynov gave the Odesa area to Kolomoyskiy's man, Ukrainska Pravda (6 May 2014)
  13. 1 2 Kiev hands Odessa post to new governor in effort to end uprising, Financial Times (6 May 2014)
  14. ↑ How did Odessa's fire happen?, BBC News (6 May 2014)
  15. ↑ Poroshenko Bloc to have greatest number of seats in parliament Archived 2014-11-12 at the Wayback Machine, Ukrinform (8 November 2014)
    People's Front 0.33% ahead of Poroshenko Bloc with all ballots counted in Ukraine elections - CEC Archived 2014-11-12 at the Wayback Machine, Interfax-Ukraine (8 November 2014)
    Poroshenko Bloc to get 132 seats in parliament - CEC, Interfax-Ukraine (8 November 2014)
  16. ↑ (in Ukrainian) Full electoral list of Poroshenko Bloc, Ukrainska Pravda (19 September 2014)
  17. ↑ The head YEAH Igor Palitsa decided to undergo procedure of lustration (17 December 2014)
  18. 1 2 (in Ukrainian) Is Kolomoisky's party "For the Future" a new political project?, Civil movement "Chesno" (6 July 2020)
  19. ↑ Putin Gets Personal in Ukraine, Bloomberg View (Mar 4, 2014)
  20. ↑ (in Ukrainian) A group of three people: "For the Future" Palitsa, Kolomoisky and Avakov, Ukrainska Pravda (18 August 2021)
  21. ↑ "УКАЗ ПРЕЗИДЕНТА УКРАЇНИ №26/2009. Про відзначення державними нагородами України". president.gov.ua.
  22. ↑ "Ігор Палиця – лауреат премії імені Євгена Чикаленка". Волинські новини. 2023-06-28. Retrieved 2023-06-28.
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