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Valeriy Davydenko

Valeriy Davydenko

Ukrainian businessman and politician (1973–2020)

Valeriy Davydenko (Ukrainian: Валерій Миколайович Давиденко, 16 March 1973, Nosivka, Chernihiv Oblast, Ukrainian SSR – 23 May 2020)[1][2][3] was a Ukrainian businessman and politician.[3][4] He was found shot dead in the bathroom of his office on 23 May 2020.[3]

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Early life and education

Born in Nosivka Chernihiv Oblast in 1973, Davydenko graduated from the National University of Food Technologies with a degree in mechanical engineering of food production equipment.[1]

Career

From the late 1990s to the early 2000s, he worked as an insurance specialist.[1] From 2004 to 2013, Davydenko was General Director of an agricultural company which was founded in 2003 by Davydenko's mother and the future Minister of Finance of Ukraine, Yuriy Kolobov.[1] In 2020, fellow former member of parliament Andriy Verevskyi also had a stake in this company.[1] Davydenko, Kolobov and member of parliament Borys Prykhodko were former owners of the bankrupt and liquidated Terra Bank.[1]

In May 2013, Davydenko was appointed Deputy Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food in the second Azarov government (Yuriy Kolobov was Minister of Finance in this government).[1] He was fired in March 2014 after the 2014 Ukrainian revolution that was the end of the presidency of Viktor Yanukovych.[1]

Davydenko was first elected to the Ukrainian parliament in the 2014 parliamentary election for the party Zastup.[5][6] He won the party's only seat when as an unaffiliated candidate in the 208th single-member constituency located in Bakhmach.[7] He won with 38.86% of the vote.[7] During the parliamentary campaign, public observers stated they had allegedly recorded voter bribery for Davydenko.[1] Zastup claimed this had been a provocation.[1] Davydenko later joined the parliamentary faction of Petro Poroshenko Bloc.[8] Davydenko was re-elected, after again a win in the 208th constituency (with 37.43% of the vote) but this time as an independent candidate, in the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election.[9] A few months before his death, Davydenko was co-chairman of the political party Our Land.[1] After the 2019 parliamentary election, Davydenko joined the Trust (parliamentary group) faction.[1]

Death

Davydenko and his wife had two daughters.[1] Davydenko was found shot dead in the bathroom of his office in Kyiv on 23 May 2020.[3]

On 25 October 2020 Anatoliy Hunko [uk] from Servant of the People won the early election, called to replace Davydenko, in constituency 208 with 34.10%.[10] Davydenko's wife Lyudmyla took 3rd place in the election with 26.68% of the votes.[11][10]

See also

References

  1. [1]
    (in Ukrainian) Business with Kolobov, Nasirov's defense and Ulyanchenko's party. What is known about the found people's deputy Davydenko shot Ukrainska Pravda (24 May 2020)
  2. [2]
    (in Ukrainian) People's Deputy Valery Davydenko was found dead in, Glavcom (23 May 2020)
  3. [3]
    Ukrainian MP Valeriy Davydenko found dead in own office's restroom, UNIAN (23 May 2020)
  4. [4]
    "Біографія - Давиденко Валерій Миколайович". 2019-09-11. Archived from the original on 2019-09-11. Retrieved 2023-06-30.
  5. [5]
    (in Russian) List of parties in the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election, ITAR-TASS (24 October 2014)
  6. [6]
    Poroshenko Bloc candidates leading in 64 single-seat constituencies - CEC, Interfax-Ukraine (27 October 2014)
  7. [7]
    Data on vote counting at precincts within single-mandate districts Extraordinary parliamentary election on 26.10.2014 Archived October 9, 2014, at the Wayback Machine, Central Election Commission of Ukraine
  8. [8]
    "Офіційний портал Верховної Ради України". w1.c1.rada.gov.ua. Archived from the original on 2016-09-23.
  9. [9]
    "На 208-м округе в Черниговской области "слугу народа" Панченко опередил нардеп Давыденко". 11 July 2022.
  10. [10]
    (in Ukrainian) Election results of the 25 October 2020 early election in Constituency 208, Central Election Commission of Ukraine
  11. [11]
    (in Ukrainian) Verkhovna Rada elections in 208 constituencies: The CEC registered the wife of the deceased deputy, Ukrayinska Pravda (4 October 2020)
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