Political party Samopomich, led by Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovyi, has presented its party list for the upcoming parliamentary elections during a convention held on June 8.
Samopomich currently has 26 seats in parliament.
According to the latest poll conducted by Kyiv International Institute of Sociology and published on June 10, 0.6 percent of respondents who plan to vote and have chosen a political party favor Samopomich. Parties need to receive 5 percent of the vote in order to enter the parliament.
The top 10 candidates on the Samopomich party list are:
1 Andriy Sadovyi – the mayor of Lviv, a city of about 720,000 people located 540 kilometers southwest of Kyiv. He founded Samopomich in 2012. Although the party won 32 seats in parliament, Sadovyi stayed in the mayor’s office, a post he has held since 2006. He ran for president in 2019 but later withdrew from the race in favor of Anatoliy Grytsenko, leader of Civic Position party.
2 Olga Kvasnitska – an Odesa City Council lawmaker with the Samopomich faction. According to Samopomich, Kvasnitska is famous for fighting illegal construction in Odesa, a city of over one million people roughly 500 kilometers to the south of Kyiv.
3 Oleksandra Drik – the head of Declarations Under Control, a civic watchdog organization, and a member of the Civic Control Council of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine.
4 Tetiana Bidniak – a Kharkiv Oblast Council lawmaker and member of the Help Army volunteer non-profit.
5 Oksana Syroid – the deputy speaker of the parliament since 2014, who was elected to the Verkhovna Rada on the Samopomich party list.
6 Vitaliy Fydryn – head of the Samopomich Party faction in the Ternopil Oblast Council and a war veteran.
7 Oleh Berezyuk – head of the Samopomich Party faction in parliament since 2014. In 2006-2014, he worked for several departments of the Lviv City Council.
8 Mykola Kmit – an entrepreneur and the founder of the Morshynska bottled water company. Kmit was the president of the IDS Group holding, which produces mineral water, in 2005-2008. He headed the Lviv Oblast State Administration in 2008-2010.
9 Tetiana Ostrikova – a lawyer and lawmaker with the Samopomich faction in parliament since 2014. She is a member of the parliamentary Committee on Tax and Customs Policy.
10 Olha Babiy – a lawmaker with the Samopomich fraction of the Kyiv Oblast Council since 2015 and vice-president of the Association of Water Utilities of Ukraine.
The top 10 candidates on Samopomich’s list include six women and four men. The full party list includes 106 candidates. According to Samopomich, 80 percent of the list is made up of “new faces in Ukrainian politics.” The list was formed from three categories of candidates: current lawmakers, party leaders in the regions, and, finally, opinion makers and experts.
After dissolving Verkhovna Rada during his inaugural address on May 20, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy scheduled a snap election for July 21.
According to Ukrainian electoral law, parties need to receive 5 percent of the vote in order to enter the parliament. Half of the Verkhovna Rada’s 450 lawmakers are elected through party lists, while the other 225 run for office in single-mandate districts.
Current polling suggests that five parties will enter the parliament through party lists. They are Servant of the People, Opposition Platform – For Life, European Solidarity, Batkivshchyna, and Voice. However, other parties may gain representation in the Rada through the single-mandate districts.
