Ivan Plyushch
Ivan Plyushch (* 1941 in Borsna, Chernihiv Oblast ) is a Ukrainian politician. He was twice president of the Ukrainian parliament and is currently deputy of the faction NU -NS.
Life
After completing his education at the local Agricultural College Plyushch first worked as a laborer and section head in various state and collective farms of Chernihiv Oblast, 1967-1974 as director of agricultural holdings. From 1975 to 1977 he was active in the Communist Party apparatus in the Kiev Oblast.
From 1977 to 1979 studied at the Academy Plyushch of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Social Sciences in Moscow. Then he continued his activities in the party organs of the Kiev Oblast. In 1984 he became first deputy chairman and then chairman of the Oblastverwaltung. In 1990 the Parliament of the Oblast elected him as its president.
In the same year Plyushch was first elected to the Verkhovna Rada, the Parliament of soon after independent Ukraine. From December 1991 to May 1994, and from February 2000 to May 2002 he was President of the Parliament. In 1994 he took part as a candidate in the election of the President of Ukraine and received 1.29 % of votes. He scored the second-worst result of the seven candidates.
In the 2006 general election, he missed with the choice block named after him and the politicians Yuri Kostenko with 1.9 % of the vote clearly the three- percent threshold.
In May 2007, Ivan Plyushch of President Viktor Yushchenko was appointed Chairman of the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine. Plyushch interpreted the remit of the committee very generous, making this. Become one of the most important instruments of the president to influence the run by his political opponent Viktor Yanukovych government He was in that office replaced by Rajisa Bohatyrjowa the end of 2007.
In the early parliamentary elections in 2007 as the candidate of President Plyushch block Nasha Ukraine Corporation was - Narodna elected to Parliament again samooborona (NU - NS). Here he was part of the intra-party opposition coalition with the Blok Juliji Tymoshenko ( BJuT ), the second -Western force in parliament. Plyushch called for the formation of a grand coalition with the Party of Regions and refused until recently the coalition agreement between the NU -NS and BJuT to sign.
As the only deputy of the fractions NU -NS and BJuT took Plyushch on December 4, not at the parliamentary session in part, in the NU -NS - MP Arseniy Yatsenyuk was elected against bitter resistance of the other parties to the President of Parliament. Plyushch should have at that time visited together with the business and political leaders of the Party of Regions Rinat Akhmetov a game of football club Shakhtar Donetsk. Finally, he was - apart from a diseased deputies - the only member of the fractions of BJuT and NU -NS who has not voted in the vote on 18 December 2007 for Yulia Tymoshenko as new Prime Minister. The block NU -NS is considering an exclusion Pluschtschs from the fraction.
Ivan Plyushch is married and has one daughter. He carries since 2001 the award of Hero of Ukraine.