Oleh Meidych

Oleh Leonidovych Meidych (Ukrainian: Олег Леонідович Мейдич; born 24 November 1970) is a Ukrainian businessman and politician currently serving as a People's Deputy of Ukraine from Ukraine's 18th electoral district, representing north-eastern Vinnytsia Oblast.[1]

Oleh Meidych
Олег Мейдич
Official portrait, 2019
People's Deputy of Ukraine
Assumed office
29 August 2019
Preceded byRuslan Demchak
ConstituencyVinnytsia Oblast, No. 18
Personal details
Born (1970-11-24) 24 November 1970
Kalynivka, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine)
Political partyBatkivshchyna

Biography

Meidych is director of Kalinov Dairy Plant Ltd.[2]

In 2002 and 2010, he ran for the Vinnytsia Oblast Council, both times unsuccessfully. Meidich worked as an assistant to People's Deputy Petro Gasyuk.[3]

From 2015, Meidych was a member of the Vinnytsia Oblast Council, serving as head of the Batkivshchyna party in the council,[4] as well as a member of the Standing Committee on Regulation of Communal Property and Privatization.[2]

He was a proxy candidate of Yulia Tymoshenko in the 2019 Ukrainian presidential election.[5]

In the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election, Meidych was a successful candidate for People's Deputy of Ukraine, running in Ukraine's 18th electoral district as a member of Batkivshchyna. He currently serves as First Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Agrarian Policy and Land Relations in the Verkhovna Rada.[6]

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