Yuriy Kostenko
Юрій Костенко
Kostenko in December 2009
Minister of Natural Environment Protection
In office
13 October 1992 – May 1998
President
Prime Minister
Preceded byYuriy Shcherbak
Succeeded byVasyl Shevchuk
People's Deputy of Ukraine
In office
23 November 2007 – 12 December 2012
ConstituencyNUNS, No. 16
In office
15 May 1990 – 25 May 2006
Preceded byPosition established
Constituency
Personal details
Born (1951-06-12) 12 June 1951
Nova Obodivka, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine)
Political partyPeople's Movement of Ukraine (1989–1999)
Alma materZaporizhzhia Polytechnic National University

Yuriy Ivanovych Kostenko (Ukrainian: Юрій Іванович Костенко; born 6 December 1951[1]) is a Ukrainian politician and leader of the Ukrainian People's Party.[2]

Biography

Kostenko holds a Ph.D. from the Zaporizhzhia Polytechnic National University. In 1989, he became one of the founders of People's Movement of Ukraine (Rukh) and served as a People's Deputy of Ukraine from 1990 to 2006 and from 2007 to 2012,[3][4] and in 2002 as a member of Our Ukraine.[5] From 1992 to 1998, he served as the minister of environmental protection.[3] Kostenko was a candidate at the 1999 Ukrainian presidential election where he received 2.17% of votes.[2] Kostenko was involved in Ukraine’s nuclear disarmament, which he later regretted, and in dealing with the aftermath of the Chernobyl disaster.[6]

Before the 2006 Ukrainian parliamentary election Kostenko initiated the creation of a coalition known as Ukrainian National Bloc of Kostenko and Plyushch who has acquired 1.9% of the vote and did not exceed the 3% threshold of the election.

In July 2007 Kostenko and Ivan Plyushch joined together the bloc Our Ukraine–People's Self-Defense Bloc and both got re-elected as People's Deputy of Ukraine. Unlike many allies of Yushchenko, Kostenko did not defect from the Our Ukraine grouping in parliament.[6]

Kostenko was a candidate in the 2010 Ukrainian presidential election, his party program included recognizing Ukrainian Insurgent Army veterans,[6] during the election, he received 0.22% of the votes.[7]

Kostenko's Ukrainian People's Party competed on one single party under "umbrella" party Our Ukraine in the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election, together with Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists; this list won 1.11% of the national votes and no constituencies, and thus failed to win parliamentary representation.[8][9] Kostenko was second the election list of Our Ukraine.[10] He did not participate in the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election.[11]

References

  1. ↑ "Our Campaigns - Candidate - Yuriy Kostenko".
  2. 1 2 Ukrainian People’s Party nominates its leader Kostenko for president Archived October 27, 2009, at the Wayback Machine, Interfax-Ukraine (24 October 2009)
  3. 1 2 "Untitled Document". Library of Congress. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 29 December 2017.
  4. ↑ "The Makeup of the New Verkhovna Rada / Ukrayinska Pravda". Archived from the original on 17 March 2008. Retrieved 11 June 2008.
  5. ↑ http://gska2.rada.gov.ua:7777/site/dep_eng/Kostenko_Y.HTM%5B%5D
  6. 1 2 3 Kostenko will pick up votes in west, but not in other regions, Kyiv Post (14 January 2010)
  7. ↑ (in Ukrainian) ЦВК оприлюднила офіційні результати 1-го туру виборів, Gazeta.ua (25 January 2010)
  8. ↑ (in Ukrainian) Proportional votes Archived October 30, 2012, at the Wayback Machine & Constituency seats Archived November 5, 2012, at the Wayback Machine, Central Election Commission of Ukraine
  9. ↑ "НУ, УНП и КУН объединились в "Союз патриотических сил" для участия в выборах". 31 July 2012.
  10. ↑ (in Ukrainian) "Наша Україна" хоче бути альтернативою усім учасникам виборів "Our Ukraine" wants to be an alternative to all election participants , BBC Ukrainian (31 July 2012)
  11. ↑ (in Ukrainian) Alphabetical Index of candidates in 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election, Central Election Commission (Ukraine).
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