Oleh Meidych | |
Native Name Lang: | uk |
Birth Date: | 24 November 1970 |
Birth Place: | Kalynivka, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine) |
Office: | People's Deputy of Ukraine |
Constituency: | Vinnytsia Oblast, No. 18 |
Party: | Batkivshchyna |
Termstart: | 29 August 2019 |
Predecessor: | Ruslan Demchak |
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]
Meidych is director of Kalinov Dairy Plant Ltd.[2]
In 2002 and 2010, he ran for the Vinnytsia Oblast Council, both times unsuccessfully. Meidich worked as an assistant to People's Deputy .[3]
From 2015, Meidych was a member of the Vinnytsia Oblast Council, serving as head of the Batkivshchyna party in the council,[4] as well as a member of the Standing Committee on Regulation of Communal Property and Privatization.
He was a proxy candidate of Yulia Tymoshenko in the 2019 Ukrainian presidential election.[5]
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.[6]