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The Mariinskyi Palace, official residence of the president of Ukraine, in July 2018. The president of Ukraine is the head of state of Ukraine, directly elected to a five-year term by voting eligible citizens of Ukraine. The officeholder leads the executive branch of the government and is the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
On March 31, after the announcement of the results of the exit polls of the first round of the presidential elections of Ukraine, Poroshenko invited Zelensky to a public open debate. On April 3, Zelensky put forward a proposal for an exclusive public debate at the stadium, on which Poroshenko agreed.
Before entering national politics, Yanukovych was the Governor of his native Donetsk Oblast from 1997 to 2002. He was simultaneously the Chairman of the oblast's legislature from 1999 to 2001. He first ran for president in the 2004 election, where he was declared the winner against Viktor Yushchenko.
Over the past 10 days, Vice President JD Vance put Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on notice, rattled the confidence of century-old allies in Western Europe during his first foreign trip ...
Ukrainian First Lady Olena Zelenska said on Sunday that she doesn’t know if her husband, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, will run for reelection in 2024. During an appearance on CBS’s ...
Ukrainian presidential elections determine who will serve as the President of Ukraine for the next five years. [1]Since the establishment of the position of the President of Ukraine in 1991, presidential elections have taken place seven times: in 1991, 1994, 1999, 2004, 2010, 2014 and 2019.
Petro Poroshenko was born on 26 September 1965, into an ethnic Ukrainian family in Bolhrad, a primarily Bulgarian town in Ukraine's southwestern Odesa Oblast.Poroshenko's father Oleksiy Poroshenko [de; uk; ru] (1936–2020), [9] was an engineer and later a government official who managed multiple factories in the Ukrainian SSR.
According to Article 103 of the constitution, in the event of pre-term termination of presidential authority, the election of a new president must take place within 90 days of the previous president's departure from office. [25] The constitution limits presidents to serving two terms in office, though only Leonid Kuchma has served two terms. [26]