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List of presidents of Ukraine from 1991 – till date. No. Portrait Name (Birth–Death) Term dates [3] Term length Party [a] Election Cabinets 1: Leonid Kravchuk Леонід Кравчук (1934–2022) [4] 5 December 1991 [b] – 19 July 1994: 2 years, 226 days Independent: 1991: Fokin (1990–92) Kuchma (1992–93) 2: Leonid Kuchma ...
Presidential elections were held in Ukraine on 31 March 2019. As none of the 39 candidates on the ballot received an absolute majority of the initial vote, a runoff was held on 21 April between the top two vote-getters: Volodymyr Zelenskyy, a television personality, and Petro Poroshenko, the incumbent president.
The first presidential election in Ukraine was held on 1 December 1991. On 22 August 1992, the last President of the Ukrainian People's Republic in exile Mykolva Plaviuk transferred his authorities to the first post-Soviet president Leonid Kravchuk.
The self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic and Luhansk People's Republic, controlling large parts of Donbas, had vowed to do everything possible to disrupt the elections on their territory. [ 14 ] Petro Poroshenko won the presidency and served a full presidential term until 2019 , losing to Volodymyr Zelenskyy .
Mr Zelensky was elected as president of Ukraine in May 2019. Elections were previously scheduled to go ahead in 2024, but they were not held as a result of martial law being in place.
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky attends a meeting with Germany's defense minister in Kyiv on January 14, 2025, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. - Tetiana Dzhafarova/AFP/Getty Images
If the president's authority has ended pre-term, then the elections must be held within 90 days of the incumbent president's end of term. Candidates seeking election are required to pay a nomination deposit of 2,500,000 hryvnias (approx. 90,000 US Dollars) which is refunded only to those candidates that progress to the second round of voting.
The list of four charges in an indictment against Donald Trump arising from efforts to overturn his 2020 election defeat. ... interference efforts and the ... President Volodymyr Zelensky ...