Petro Poroshenko
Petro Olexijowytsch Poroshenko ( Ukr Петро Олексійович Порошенко, Research transl Petro Oleksijovyč Porošenko, . Born September 26, 1965 in Bolhrad ) is a Ukrainian industrialist and politician. Its wealth is based on the revenues of its group of companies Ukrprominvest (chocolate, TV stations, shipbuilding and defense contractors ), with this he is one of the largest operators in the Ukraine. 2013 he was appointed by the business magazine "Forbes", with an estimated fortune of $ 1.6 billion, listed in seventh place of the Ukrainian oligarchs.
He held already various government offices, he was Chairman of " National Security ", February 2007-March 2012 Federal Reserve Board and Director of the National Bank of Ukraine and foreign and economic ministers, both from the pro-Western government of President Viktor Yushchenko and Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and under President Viktor Yanukovych. He candidate in the presidential election in Ukraine in 2014.
Background and education
As the son of a mechanical engineer and later factory director of the Odessa Oblast Poroshenko studied at the Taras Shevchenko University in Kiev from 1982 to 1985 and from 1986 to 1989 at the Faculty of International Relations and International Law with a degree in International Economics. From 1984 to 1986 he did his military service.
After graduating Poroshenko worked as aspirant at the Department of Economic Relations at the Institute of International Relations and International Law at the Kiev Taras Shevchenko University. His "little" doctoral thesis ( dissertation candidates ), he published in 2002 at the Odessa National Law Academy under the title " The right modern regulation of the management of state corporate law in Ukraine" ( Ukr Правове регулювання управління державними корпоративними правами в Україні ).
Career as an entrepreneur
The cornerstone of its economic rise Poroshenko put in the times of upheaval of the 1990s, at first he acted with cocoa beans, he acquired several confectionery factories, which he merged ( one word creation from Poroshenkos last name) to the consolidated Roshen. Roshen produces annually 450,000 tons of confectionery and makes about 40 percent of its sales in Russia and the CIS countries (as of 2013). The food group Roshen earned him the nickname "Chocolate King " and "Sugar Baron" one.
He was deputy director in the association of small business owners and company " Respublika "; since 1991 Director General of the corporation broking company " Ukraina " and as of 1993 the closed joint-stock company Ukrprominvest ( Ukr Група " Укрпромінвест "), a diversified investment and including the shipbuilding and defense companies Leninska Kuznya belongs to. The father Poroschenkos, Alexey Poroshenko (* 1936) ( Порошенко, Алексей Иванович ), is the CEO of Ukrprominvest.
About his shares in the holding Ukrprominvest Poroshenko controlled inter alia, a media group with TV and radio stations, including the influential channel 5 ( 5.ua ), a liberal private television, the news magazines Bigmir.net and Korrespondent.net As one of the richest men in the Ukraine, he is counted among the oligarchs.
Poroshenko announced the Roshen Corporation to sell, should he win the presidential election in Ukraine in 2014.
Political career
Party offices
Poroshenko was from July to November 2000 Chairman of the Party ( Solidarnost ) ( "Solidarity " ), then Deputy Chairman of the Party of Labour Solidarity of Ukraine, and from March until November 2001 Deputy Chairman of the Party of Regions. From October 1998 to February 2002 Poroshenko was a member of the Politburo of the " United Socialist Party of Ukraine ".
Member of Parliament
The regional stronghold Poroschenkos is the city of Vinnytsia as well as large parts of the same area in the west of central Ukraine. With 32 years Poroshenko was first elected on his constituency in the Vinnytsia Oblast in March 1989 into Parliament. As an economic specialist Poroshenko was active leader among other things in the committees for securities, funds and investment markets in the Committee for Finance and banking matters. He joined the group of the Social Democratic Party of Ukraine, which supported the then pro-Russian president Leonid Kuchma and became a member of the political council of the party. After two years Poroshenko founded the Solidarity Party, which he still brought together in the same year with four other parties to form a new party - this was registered as the Party of Regions in March 2001 and elected Poroshenko Deputy Chairman Mykola Azarov.
In the fourth legislature of the Verkhovna Rada, which lasted from 2002 to 2006, Poroshenko was again deputy. He belonged to the Our Ukraine faction that supported the later President Viktor Yushchenko. Poroshenko was temporarily Chairman of the Budget Committee and member of the National Bank Council. In addition to Yulia Tymoshenko, he was following the election Viktor Yushchenko in 2005 one of the contenders for the premiership.
Government offices
From his position of Chairman of the National Security and Defense Council, the Poroshenko held after the formation of a government of Yushchenko, he joined in September 2005, shortly before the release of the entire government back. The causes of conflicts have been called with the government Tymoshenko and corruption allegations.
On October 9, 2009 Poroshenko was elected as the new Foreign Minister of Ukraine, he held this office until March 2010. From March to December 2012, he was a Minister of Economic Affairs of the Cabinet of Mykola Azarov.
Euromaidan protests
In the parliamentary elections in 2012 Poroshenko reached in the Vinnytsia Oblast as an independent candidate back a mandate for the Verkhovna Rada. His television station " TV5 " reported increasingly critical since 2013 on the policy of the government, Yanukovych and supported the claims of the Euromaidan.
On December 20, 2013 Poroshenko said the Ukrainian government from the legitimacy. Ukraine need for the implementation of reforms, " the experience of the EU " and a " resolute attitude of the political forces." Some of these reforms, including economic reforms would be unpopular. He spoke out in favor of a common candidate of the opposition to President Yanukovych in the upcoming presidential elections. Asked whether he saw himself as a future president of Ukraine, he said: " Poroshenko can do a lot. "
Presidential candidacy
After the revolution in February 2014 Poroshenko was proposed on March 29, 2014 Vitali Klitschko at a party congress of the party UDAR as a candidate for the Ukrainian presidential elections of 2014.
On March 31, Poroshenko said in a broadcast of the TV channel 1 1, he stands the status of Crimea and the integration with the European Union for compromise with Russia on all issues except. Ukraine have decided to Europe and wanted to become a full EU member. The membership could be achieved by the year 2025. One federal Ukraine, he issued a denial.
Poroshenko announced in early April 2014 announced that he would win the presidential election, he would sell the Roshen Group.
Private
Poroshenko is since his student days married to Marina Poroshenko, a cardiologist. The couple has twin daughters ( * 2000 ), whose godfather Victor Yushchenko, and two sons. The last child was born in 2001. Poroshenko turn, is godfather to a son of Yushchenko.
Poroshenko founded the Foundation Petro Poroshenko. His wife is the president.