Vasyl Humenyuk Explained

Vasyl Protyvsikh
Birth Date:16 October 1946
Birth Place:Ivano-Frankivsk
Party:Independent

Vasyl Protyvsikh (Ukrainian: Василь Противсіх) (born Vasyl Vasylyovych Humenyuk, Ukrainian: Василь Васильович Гуменюк, born October 16, 1946[1]) is a Ukrainian politician. He is best known as a self-nominated candidate in the 2010 Ukrainian presidential election, for which he changed his second name to Protyvsikh (ukr. for "Against all").[2] During the 2010 election he received 0.16% of the votes.[3]

Biography

Vasyliy Humenyuk completed a law degree at the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv after serving in the Soviet army.[4] As a member of the Communist Party of Ukraine (although he insist he "never was and never will be a Leninist"[5]) Humenyuk was mayor of Yaremche from 1984 until the first democratic local elections in Ukraine in 1991.[6] Later he headed the customs service in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast.[4] Humenyuk was numbered number 23 at party list of the electoral bloc KUCHMA during the 2007 Ukrainian parliamentary election.[6]

Vasyliy nominated himself for the 2010 Ukrainian presidential election.[2] On October 2, 2009 he changed his second name to Protyvsikh, that can be translated as "Against-everyone".[2] Protyvsikh changed his surname to “express the opinions of all those citizens that are against all candidates and the disorder that Ukraine currently finds itself in”.[7]

Protyvsikh claims "friends from around the world" assisted him in obtained the ₴2.5 million deposit needed for his registration as presidential candidate. Protyvsikh considered Yulia Tymoshenko his main opponent in the presidential elections.[8]

Currently Protyvsikh is president of the Ivano-Frankivsk Chamber of Commerce.[2] Protyvsikh wants Ukraine to have a banking system as Switzerland.[9]

In the 2012 parliamentary elections, he ran in the 83rd electoral district (Ivano-Frankivsk) as a self-nominated candidate, and took 8th place among 10 candidates with 627 votes (0.62%).[10]

Notes and References

  1. Він, вона, воно - і проти всіх, 1+1 (November 8, 2009)
  2. http://www.interfax.com.ua/eng/main/24082/ CEC registers two more candidates for Ukraine's president
  3. ЦВК оприлюднила офіційні результати 1-го туру виборів, Gazeta.ua (January 25, 2010)
  4. http://www.kyivpost.com/news/nation/detail/52694/ Political Pulse: Presidential field takes shape
  5. Василь Противсіх з Івано-Франківська хоче стати Президентом України, взявши за приклад «бацька» Лукашенка, з якого колись теж сміялись, Z I K (November 5, 2009)
  6. Василь Противсіх: колгоспник Лукашенко став президентом, чим я гірший?, ZAXID.NET (November 6, 2009)
  7. http://www.kyivpost.com/news/politics/detail/53257/ Three candidates united by disgust with authorities
  8. http://www.kyivpost.com/news/politics/detail/52390/ Protyvsikh considers Tymoshenko his main opponent in presidential elections
  9. http://www.kyivpost.com/news/politics/detail/57248/ Protyvsikh votes for 'Ukrainian Switzerland'
  10. Web site: Одномандатний виборчий округ №83 — ІАС "Вибори народних депутатів України 2012". 25 January 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20150703174021/http://www.cvk.gov.ua/pls/vnd2012/WP040?PT001F01=900&pf7331=83. 3 July 2015. dead.