Nataliya Vitrenko

Nataliya Mikhailivna Vitrenko (Ukrainian: Натáлія Михáйлівна Вітрéнко) (born December 28, 1951 in Kiev) is a Ukrainian politician and scientist. She has a Ph.D in Statistics and Dr. of Social Sciences. She is a mother of three children.

Presidential candidacy

2004 election poster of Nataliya Vitrenko depicting a hand symbolizing USA and NATO with a Nazi swastika

She was a candidate in the 2004 Ukrainian presidential election, nominated by the Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine, which she has chaired since 1996. In the Ukrainian parliamentary election, 2002 her party won 3.22% of the votes. She was a presidential candidate in 1999, when she won 11% of the votes to finish in 4th place. In the 2004 elections, however, she finished in fifth place and received less than 5% of the vote.

On October 2, 1999, Vitrenko was attacked and wounded following a campaign rally when two unknown assailants threw two hand grenades at a crowd gathered outside one of her campaign events.^[1]

Natalia Vitrenko was again nominated by the Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine as candidate for the Ukrainian presidential election, 2010^[2] but the CECoU (Central Election Commission of Ukraine) refused to register her for failure to pay the required 2.5 million hryvnya nomination deposit. Vitrenko did not agree with the refusal, submitted a complaint to the judge and before his very eyes tore down the Ukrainian constitution as a protest. On November 11, 2009, Vitrenko said: "Ukraine is condemned either to collapse, or to make a revolution. To Ukrainian government, Constitution of Ukraine is nothing but toilet paper"

Political position

Natalia Vitrenko, meeting in Alchevsk, Ukraine, September 2008

Vitrenko is a member of the Eurasian Youth Union.^[3]

Personal life

As a divorced woman she raised three children as a single mother.^{[citation needed]}

References

1. ^ Maksymiuk, Jan,"Grenade Attack on Vitrenko lets genie out of the bottle," Ukrainian Weekly,[1] October 17, 1999
2. ^ CEC registers two more candidates for Ukraine's president, Interfax-Ukraine (November 6, 2009)
3. ^ Romanian, Russian fascists ally against Ukraine, Moldova, Kyiv Post (August 10, 2009)

External links

• Official web site
• The Strange Alliance between Ukrainian “Progressive Socialism” and Russian “Neo-Eurasianism”
• Natalia Vitrenko speech on YouTube

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