Yuriy Solod | |
Office: | People's Deputy of Ukraine |
Term Start: | 27 November 2014[1] |
Term End: | 24 February 2023 |
Birth Date: | 27 April 1972 |
Birth Place: | Krasnyi Kut, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union |
Nationality: | Ukrainian |
Party: | Opposition Bloc, Opposition Platform — For Life |
Yuriy Vasylyovych Solod (Ukrainian: Юрій Васильович Солод; born 27 April 1972)[2] is a Ukrainian businessman and politician.[3]
Since the 1990s, Solod has been engaged in business ventures with his wife Natalia Korolevska.[3]
In the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election, Solod was elected to the Ukrainian parliament for Opposition Bloc after winning a single-member district seat in Sloviansk with 34.17% of the votes.[4] [5] In the same election, Korolevska was also re-elected to parliament after placing 8th on the electoral list of Opposition Bloc.[4] [6] [7]
In the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election, Solod was re-elected, this time as a candidate of the party Opposition Platform — For Life after winning the same single-member district seat.[8] His spouse Korolevska was also re-elected, having been placed 4th on the party list of Opposition Platform — For Life.[9]
He is reported to have left Ukraine in early February 2022.[10]
In February 2023 Solod and his wife Korolevska asked for the deprivation of their parliamentary mandates for "health and family circumstance." On 24 February 2023 parliament withdrew their mandates.[11]
Solod and his spouse have two sons.[12]