Valeriy Davydenko

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Valeriy Davydenko (Ukrainian: Валерій Миколайович Давиденко, 16 March 1973 – 23 May 2020)^[1][2][3] was a Ukrainian businessman and politician.^[3] He was found shot dead in the bathroom of his office on 23 May 2020.^[3]

Early life and education[]

Born in Nosivka Chernihiv Oblast in 1973, Davydenko graduated from the National University of Food Technologies with a degree in mechanical engineering of food production equipment.^[1]

Career[]

From the late 1990s to the early 2000s, he worked as an insurance specialist.^[1] From 2004 to 2013 Davydenko was General Director of an agricultural company which was founded in 2003 by Davydenko's mother and the future Minister of Finance of Ukraine, Yuriy Kolobov.^[1] In 2020, fellow former member of parliament Andriy Verevskyi also had a stake in this company.^[1] Davydenko, Kolobov and member of parliament Borys Prykhodko were former owners of the bankrupt and liquidated Terra Bank.^[1]

In May 2013 Davydenko was appointed Deputy Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food in the second Azarov government (Yuriy Kolobov was Minister of Finance in this government).^[1] He was fired in March 2014 after the 2014 Ukrainian revolution that was the end of the presidency of Viktor Yanukovych.^[1]

Davydenko was first elected to the Ukrainian parliament in the 2014 parliamentary election for the party Zastup.^[4][5] He won the party's only seat when as an unaffiliated candidate in the 208th single-member constituency located in Bakhmach.^[6] He won with 38.86% of the vote.^[6] During the parliamentary campaign public observers stated they had allegedly recorded voter bribery for Davydenko.^[1] Zastup claimed this had been a provocation.^[1] Davydenko later joined the parliamentary faction of Petro Poroshenko Bloc.^[7] Davydenko was re-elected, after again a win in the 208th constituency (with 37,43% of the vote) but this time as an independent candidate, in the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election.^[8] A few months before his death Davydenko was co-chairman of the political party Our Land.^[1] After the 2019 parliamentary election Davydenko joined the Trust (parliamentary group) faction.^[1]

Death[]

Davydenko and his wife had two daughters.^[1] Davydenko was found shot dead in the bathroom of his office in Kyiv on 23 May 2020.^[3]

On 25 October 2020  [uk] from Servant of the People won the early election, called to replace Davydenko, in constituency 208 with 34.10%.^[9] Davydenko's wife Lyudmyla took 3th place in the election with 26,68% of the votes.^[10][9]

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