Valery Pustovoitenko

Valery Pustovoitenko, 2015

Valery Pawlowytsch Pustowoitenko ( Ukrainian Валерій Павлович Пустовойтенко , scientific. Transliteration Valerij Pavlovyč Pustovojtenko * 23. February 1947 in Adamiwka , Mykolaiv Oblast ) was of 16. July 1997 to 22 December 1999 Prime Minister of Ukraine .

Valery Pustovoitenko was born on February 23, 1947, the son of a farmer. He attended the Odessa Industrial School No. 9 and the Odessa Polytechnic Institute and the Civil Technical Institute in Dnepropetrovsk . In 1984 he became the director of the Dniprobudmechanisazija industrial plant . Since 1987 he worked in the city administration of Dnepropetrovsk.

In March 1990 he was elected to the Verkhovna Rada , the parliament of Ukraine. From April to September 1993 and from July 1994 to July 1997 he was a member of the government cabinet of Ukraine. From October 1993 to July 1994 he was deputy director of a private bank.

On July 16, 1997, Pustovoitenko became Prime Minister of Ukraine. In 1999, after the inauguration of President Leonid Kuchma , who was re-elected that year, Pustovoitenko constitutionally resigned with his cabinet. Then he was active in party politics. In the Kinach cabinet he was Minister of Transport.

Pustovoitenko has been its leader since the founding of the People's Democratic Party of Ukraine (NDP) , before his election as prime minister and after 2000 also its chairman. When the party alliance of the People's Democratic Party, led by the NDP, won less than 1% of the vote in the 2006 parliamentary elections , the resigned from this office.

Web links

• Curriculum vitae on the website of the Ukrainian government , memento from July 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive .