Mykola Tomenko | |
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Микола Томенко | |
Chairman of the Committee of the Verkhovna Rada on ecological policy of the 8th convocation | |
In office December 4, 2014[1] – March 25, 2016 | |
Preceded by | Iryna Sekh |
Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of the 6th convocation | |
In office September 2, 2008 – December 12, 2012 | |
Preceded by | Mykola Tomenko |
Succeeded by | Ruslan Koshulynskyi |
Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of the 5th convocation | |
In office February 8, 2007 – June 14, 2007 | |
Preceded by | Oleksandr Zinchenko |
Succeeded by | Mykola Tomenko |
Vice-Prime Minister of Ukraine on humanitarian policy | |
In office February 4, 2005 – September 8, 2005 | |
Prime Minister | Yulia Tymoshenko |
Preceded by | Dmytro Tabachnyk |
Succeeded by | Vyacheslav Kyrylenko |
People's Deputy of Ukraine | |
4th convocation | |
In office May 14, 2002 – March 3, 2005 | |
Constituency | Our Ukraine Bloc, No.62[2] |
5th convocation | |
In office May 25, 2006 – June 14, 2007 | |
Constituency | Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc, No.3[3] |
6th convocation | |
In office November 23, 2007 – December 12, 2012 | |
Constituency | Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc, No.3[4] |
7th convocation | |
In office December 12, 2012 – November 27, 2014 | |
Constituency | Fatherland (until April 2, 2014), No.10[5] |
8th convocation | |
In office November 27, 2014 – March 25, 2016[6] | |
Constituency | Petro Poroshenko Bloc, No.8[7] |
Personal details | |
Born | Mali Kanivtsi, Cherkasy Oblast, Ukrainian SSR (now Ukraine) | December 11, 1964
Political party | Petro Poroshenko Bloc |
Other political affiliations | Our Ukraine Bloc (2002-05) Y. Tymoshenko Bloc (2005-14) |
Spouse | Valentyna |
Children | Pavlo (b. 1989) |
Website | www |
Mykola Volodymyrovych Tomenko (Ukrainian: Микола Володимирович Томенко; born December 11, 1964) is a Ukrainian politician. He has been a member of Ukraine's parliament, the Verkhovna Rada from 2006 until 2016.[6] In 2014, Tomenko became a member of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc, which elected him to the 8th Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada on its party lists during the 2014 parliamentary election.[8] On 25 March 2016 the party Congress of Petro Poroshenko Bloc removed Tomenko's parliamentary mandate using the Imperative mandate provisions of the Ukrainian constitution.[6] This was considered illegal by Tomenko; on 28 July 2016 Ukraine's highest Administrative Court rejected his appeal to gain back his parliamentary seat.[6]
Tomenko is a centre-right politician, previously a member of the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc. He was also one of the leaders and most notable speakers of the Orange Revolution. In 2005, Tomenko served as Vice-Prime Minister of Ukraine in the Cabinet of Yulia Tymoshenko (coordinating humanitarian policy). In the Verkhovna Rada, he also served as the Chairman of the Freedom of Speech and Mass Media Committee and twice as the Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada (during the 6th and 7th convocations).[9] Tomenko tendered his resignation as deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada on 4 July 2012 as a sign of protest against the way legislation on languages in Ukraine was passed on 3 July 2012.[10][11][12]