Vyacheslav Kyrylenko

Vyacheslav Kyrylenko ( born June 7, 1968 in Poliske in Kiev) is a Ukrainian politician. He is chairman of the party Narodnyj Soyuz Nasha Ukraine Corporation and was Chairman of the Group Nasha Ukraine Corporation - Narodna Samooborona in the Ukrainian parliament.

Training

Vyacheslav Kyrylenko graduated in 1993 graduated from the Faculty of Arts, Kyiv Taras Shevchenko University, and in 1996 his postgraduate study at this same university from.

Political activity

From 1992 to 1993 Kyrylenko was chairman of the Ukrainian Student Union. From 1993 to 1999 he was part of the leadership of the party Narodnyj Ruch Ukrajiny as chairman of the youth organization. From 1999 to 2005 he was a member of the party Ukrajinskyj Narodnyj Ruch (or Ukrajinska Narodna Partija ).

Kyrylenko was four deputy of the Verkhovna Rada, the Ukrainian parliament. 1998 to 2002 he was a member of the Group of Narodnyj Ruch and as of 2002 the Group Nasha Ukraine Corporation.

In 2004, he was actively involved in the enforcement of free presidential elections in the wake of the so-called Orange Revolution. In the first Western-oriented government under Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, he was Minister of Labour and Social Affairs. In the successor government under Yuri Yekhanurov he was Deputy Prime Minister of the same Ministry.

In the parliamentary elections of 2006, he joined again for Nasha Ukraine Corporation and was after the election Viktor Yanukovych ( Party of Regions ) head of government leader of the Nasha Ukraine Corporation. On 31 March 2007 he was also elected party chairman.

After the 2007 parliamentary elections, he again took up the post of chairman of the faction now Nasha Ukraine Corporation - Narodna Samooborona called an electoral alliance. On 16 December 2008, he resigned as party leader and thus protested against the recently formed a new coalition of BJuT, NU -NS and Blok Lytwyna.

Views

Vyacheslav Kyrylenko advocates a Western orientation of Ukraine and aspires to join the European Union and NATO. The political system of Ukraine is to be developed in his opinion as to the Western democracies. Kyrylenko occurs this one for a presidential system of government and was against the constitutional amendments of 2004, which made ​​a largely parliamentary system of government of Ukraine. It according to the stated views is firmly opposed to a collaboration with the Party of Regions and the Communists.

Personal

Vyacheslav Kyrylenko is married to the university lecturer Ekaterina Kyrylenko and has a daughter.