Serhii Kivalov | |
Office2: | 4th Chairman of the Central Election Commission of Ukraine |
Predecessor2: | Mykhailo Ryabets |
Successor2: | Yaroslav Davydovych |
Office: | People's Deputy of Ukraine |
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Successor: | Anton Kisse |
Birth Date: | 1 May 1954 |
Birth Place: | Tiraspol, Moldavian SSR, Soviet Union (now Moldova) |
Party: | Independent |
Alma Mater: | Ural State Law University |
Awards: | Full cavalier of the Order of Merit, Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise (4th and 5th classes), Order of Independence, National Order of the Cedar, Order of Friendship, Medal of Pushkin, Medal of Zhukov |
Office3: | 2nd Chairman of the High Council of Justice of Ukraine |
Predecessor3: | Valery Yevdokimov |
Successor3: | Mykola Shelest |
Termstart: | 29 March 1998 |
Termend: | 4 March 2004 |
Termstart1: | 25 May 2006 |
Termend1: | 21 July 2019 |
Termstart2: | 19 February 2004 |
Termend2: | 8 December 2004 |
Termend3: | 10 March 2004 |
Termstart3: | 25 May 2001 |
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Predecessor1: | Constituency re-established (2012) |
Successor1: | Oleksiy Leonov |
Otherparty: | Party of Regions (until 2014) |
Serhii Vasylovych Kivalov (uk|Сергій Васильович Ківалов; born 1 May 1954) is a Ukrainian politician and jurist who served as the head of Central Election Commission during the 2004 Ukrainian presidential election which led to the Orange Revolution.[1] [2]
Along with Vadym Kolesnichenko, he is the co-author of the bill On principles of the state language policy adopted in 2012.
From the 1998 Ukrainian parliamentary election until the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election, Kivalov was a member of the Verkhovna Rada.[3] In 2019 he lost re-election as an independent candidate in single-seat constituency 135 (Odesa Oblast).[4]