Oleksandr Tkachenko (politician)

Oleksandr Mykolaiovych Tkachenko (Ukrainian: Олександр Миколайович Ткаченко) is a Ukrainian politician, who served as a Communist Party people's deputy in the Ukrainian Parliament for five consecutive convocations from 1994 to 2012. Between July 7, 1998, and January 21, 2000, Tkachenko was the Chairman of the Parliament.

Oleksandr Tkachenko
Олександр Миколайович Ткаченко
Oleksandr Tkachenko
4th Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada
In office
7 July 1998 – 21 January 2000
PresidentLeonid Kuchma
Preceded byOleksandr Moroz
Succeeded byIvan Plyushch
People's Deputy of Ukraine
2nd convocation
In office
May 10, 1994 – May 12, 1998
ConstituencyPeasant Party of Ukraine, Cherkasy Oblast, District No.430[1]
3rd convocation
In office
May 12, 1998 – May 14, 2002
ConstituencyPeasant Party of Ukraine, Cherkasy Oblast, No.195[2]
4th convocation
In office
May 14, 2002 – May 25, 2006
ConstituencyCommunist Party of Ukraine, No.8[3]
5th convocation
In office
May 25, 2006 – November 23, 2007
ConstituencyCommunist Party of Ukraine, No.9[4]
6th convocation
In office
November 23, 2007 – December 12, 2012
ConstituencyCommunist Party of Ukraine, No.8[5]

Biography

Tkachenko was born on March 7, 1939, in Shpola, Cherkasy Oblast. In 1963 he graduated from Bila Tserkva Agriculture Institute. Between 1963 and 1981 he worked in Tarascha Raion, Kyiv Oblast, first as an agronomist and later as a local Communist party leader. In 1981 he became an inspector of the Central Committee of the KPU. In 1982 he was appointed Governor of Ternopil Oblast, and in 1985 he was appointed Minister of Agriculture of the Ukrainian SSR.

In 1991 and 1999 he was a candidate in the elections for President of Ukraine. On both occasions he withdrew his candidacy, first in favor of Leonid Kravchuk, and then in favor of Petro Symonenko.

Tkachenko was a member of the 11th convocation of the Parliament of the Ukrainian SSR, and from 1994 was elected to the Parliament of Ukraine for five consecutive terms. Between May 1994 and April 1998 he was the First Deputy Chairman of the Parliament, and was Chairman of the Parliament from July 7, 1998, to January 21, 2000, when was dismissed for violating parliamentary session regulations.

References
  1. "People's Deputy of Ukraine of the VI convocation". Official portal (in Ukrainian). Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
  2. "People's Deputy of Ukraine of the VII convocation". Official portal (in Ukrainian). Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
  3. "People's Deputy of Ukraine of the VIII convocation". Official portal (in Ukrainian). Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
  4. "People's Deputy of Ukraine of the VIII convocation". Official portal (in Ukrainian). Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
  5. "People's Deputy of Ukraine of the VIII convocation". Official portal (in Ukrainian). Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Retrieved 15 February 2015.


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