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Zaporizhia Oblast

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), Ukrainian SSR

Ukrainian SSR

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) is a Ukrainian

Ukraine

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 politician and since 2007 faction leader

Parliamentary group leader

The leader or chairman of a parliamentary group holds an influential political post in a parliamentary system with strong party discipline...

 of Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc in the Ukrainian Parliament.

Biography

Before becoming a politician Kyrylenko worked as head of a collective farm (kolkhoz) and as a civil servant in the Ministry of Agriculture of the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast

Dnipropetrovsk Oblast

Dnipropetrovsk Oblast is an oblast of central Ukraine, the most important industrial region of the country. Its administrative center is Dnipropetrovsk....

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He was first elected into Parliament on an independent candidate on in December 1995 he then joined the faction Unity

Unity (Ukraine)

Unity is a political party in Ukraine created in 1999 in protest of the then politics. The party was led by the former mayor of Kiev Oleksandr Omelchenko but in early 2008 he temporally halted his party membership and is now a member of Our Ukraine-Peoples Self Defence.-Ukrainian parliamentary...

. At the Ukrainian parliamentary election, 1998

Ukrainian parliamentary election, 1998

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 Kyrylenko was elected into Parliament on a Hromada

Hromada (political party)

All-Ukrainian Association "Hromada" is a Ukrainian political party registered in March 1994 and reregistered in March 2005. The party is led by former Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko....

 ticket. When Yulia Tymoshenko

Yulia Tymoshenko

Yulia Volodymyrivna Tymoshenko , née Grigyan , born 27 November 1960, is a Ukrainian politician. She was the Prime Minister of Ukraine from 24 January to 8 September 2005, and again from 18 December 2007 to 4 March 2010. She placed third in Forbes Magazine's List of The World's 100 Most Powerful...

 set up the breakaway All-Ukrainian Union "Fatherland" faction Kyrylenko joined her.

Kyrylenko left Parliament 2001 to become Minister of Agriculture and one of the founding members of (the now defunct electoral bloc) For United Ukraine

For United Ukraine

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 in 2001. At the time of the next elections

Ukrainian parliamentary election, 2002

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 he was a member of the Agrarian Party

People's Party (Ukraine)

The People's Party is a political party in Ukraine. It was previously named as the Agrarian Party of Ukraine . The party is led by Volodymyr Lytvyn...

 (a part of For United Ukraine). Kyrylenko was Deputy Prime Minister in the 2003 cabinet of Viktor Yanukovych

Viktor Yanukovych

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In 2006

Ukrainian parliamentary election, 2006

The Ukrainian parliamentary election took place on March 26, 2006. Election campaigning officially began on July 7, 2005. Between November 26 and December 31, 2005 party lists of candidates were formed....

 and 2007

Ukrainian parliamentary election, 2007

Early parliamentary elections in Ukraine took place on 30 September 2007. The date of the election was determined following agreement between the President Viktor Yushchenko, the Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych and the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Oleksandr Moroz on 27 May 2007, in an attempt...

 he was elected into Parliament on an All-Ukrainian Union "Fatherland" ticket. According to Yulia Tymoshenko

Yulia Tymoshenko

Yulia Volodymyrivna Tymoshenko , née Grigyan , born 27 November 1960, is a Ukrainian politician. She was the Prime Minister of Ukraine from 24 January to 8 September 2005, and again from 18 December 2007 to 4 March 2010. She placed third in Forbes Magazine's List of The World's 100 Most Powerful...

, Kyrylenko is her “godfather in politics”.