Ivan Plyushch

Ivan Pljuschtsch (2007)

Cyrillic ( Ukrainian )
	Іван Степанович Плющ
Transl. :	Ivan Stepanovyč Pljušč
Transcr. :	Ivan Stepanowytsch Pljuschtsch

Ivan Stepanowytsch Pljuschtsch ( Ukrainian Іван Степанович Плющ ; born September 11, 1941 in Borsna , Chernihiv Oblast ; † June 25, 2014 ) was a Ukrainian politician. He was a member of the NU-NS parliamentary group and twice president of the Ukrainian parliament .

Life

After completing his training at the local agricultural college, Pljuschtsch initially worked as a worker and section head in various sovkhozes and kolkhozes in Chernihiv Oblast, and from 1967 to 1974 also as the director of these farms. From 1975 to 1977 he worked in the apparatus of the Communist Party in Kiev Oblast .

From 1977 to 1979 Pljushsch studied at the Academy of Social Sciences at the Central Committee of the CPSU in Moscow . He then continued his work in the party organs of Kiev Oblast . In 1984 he was first deputy chairman and then chairman of the oblast administration. In 1990 the Oblast Parliament elected him President.

In the same year, Pljuschtsch was elected to the Verkhovna Rada , the parliament of Ukraine, which soon became independent. From December 1991 to May 1994 and from February 2000 to May 2002 he was President of Parliament . In 1994 he took part as a candidate in the election of the President of Ukraine and received 1.29% of the vote. He achieved the second worst result of the seven candidates.

In the 2006 parliamentary elections , he clearly missed the three percent hurdle with the election block named after him and the politician Jurij Kostenko with 1.9% of the vote .

In May 2007, Ivan Pljuschtsch was appointed Chairman of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine by President Viktor Yushchenko . Pljuschtsch interpreted the area of ​​responsibility of the body very generously, making it one of the most important instruments of the president to influence the government led by his political opponent Viktor Yanukovych . At the end of 2007 he was replaced in this office by Rajisa Bohatyrjowa .

In the early parliamentary elections in 2007 , Pljuschtsch was re-elected to parliament as a candidate for the presidential bloc Nascha Ukrajina - Narodna samooborona (NU-NS). Here he was part of the internal party opposition to a coalition with the Blok Juliji Tymoshenko (BJuT), the second western-oriented force in parliament. Pljuschtsch spoke out in favor of the formation of a grand coalition with the Party of Regions and refused to the very last to sign the coalition agreement between the NU-NS and BJuT.

As the only member of the NU-NS and BJuT parliamentary groups, Pljuschtsch did not take part in the parliamentary session on December 4, when the NU-NS member Arseniy Yatsenjuk was elected President of the Parliament against bitter opposition from the other parties. Pljuschtsch is said to have attended a game of the Shakhtar Donetsk football club together with the entrepreneur and politician of the Party of Regions Rinat Akhmetov . After all, he was - apart from a sick MP - the only member of the parliamentary groups of BJuT and NU-NS who did not vote for Julija Tymoshenko as the new Prime Minister in the vote on December 18, 2007 . The NU-NS bloc was considering excluding Pljuschtsch from the parliamentary group.

Ivan Pljuschtsch was married and had one daughter. He has held the Hero of Ukraine award since 2001 .

Ivan Pljuschtsch died of cancer in June 2014 and was buried in Kiev's Baikowe Cemetery .

Web links

Commons : Ivan Plyushch  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Short biography at liga.net
• Short biography at korrespondent.net

Individual evidence

1. ↑ In memory of Ivan Pljuschtsch on gorod.cn.ua of July 3, 2014; accessed on December 7, 2019 (Ukrainian)