The oldest Ukrainian deputy has changed his mind about running for election again
People's Deputy from the Opposition Bloc faction, 86-year-old majoritarian representative of the Donetsk region, Efim Zvyagilsky is not running for parliamentary elections for the first time since 1990, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
The CHESNO movement came to this conclusion based on the results of an analysis of deputy candidates on party lists and in majoritarian constituencies.
According to CHESNO, people's deputy Efim Zvyagilsky is the only people's deputy of all eight convocations of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, but for the first time since 1990, he is not running in parliamentary elections. Thus, Zvyagilsky is not on the list of candidates in district No. 45 (now it covers Avdiivka and the controlled part of the Yasinovatsky district of the Donetsk region), from which he was elected to parliament in the two previous elections (in 2012 and 2014). Also, the name of the record-breaking people’s deputy cannot be found among the candidates in other districts and party electoral lists.
The CHESNO movement indicated that Zvyagilsky has had a parliamentary mandate continuously since 1990.
Zvyagilsky, in the 2014 elections in the Donetsk region, which took place in conditions of active hostilities, once again became a deputy (but as a self-nominated candidate) in the 45th district, control over part of which was lost by Ukraine. In the end, elections there took place in only four precincts, and Zvyagilsky won with a record low number of votes - 1454.
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