Oleh Mykhaylovych Synyutka (Ukrainian: Олег Михайлович Синютка; born on 14 February 1970), is a Ukrainian politician. He is currently member of the

Ukrainian parliament The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine ( uk, Верхо́вна Ра́да Украї́ни, translit=, Verkhovna Rada Ukrainy, translation=Supreme Council of Ukraine, Ukrainian abbreviation ''ВРУ''), often simply Verkhovna Rada or just Rada, is the ...

and he was

Governor of Lviv Oblast The Governor of Lviv Oblast is the head of executive branch for the Lviv Oblast. The office of Governor is an appointed position, with officeholders being appointed by the President of Ukraine, on recommendation from the Prime Minister of Ukrai ...

from December 2014 until June 2019.

Biography

Education

Oleh Synyutka was born on 14 February 1970. In 1987, Synyutka entered the first year of the History Department of the Ivano-Frankivsk State Pedagogical Institute. 1988–1989 he served in the

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. In 1993, he graduated from the Precarpathian University as a history teacher. In 1995, he received a diploma in economics and management at the University of Carpathian. From 1995 to 2001, he held the post of chairman of the JS "Massoyuz" (in Ivano-Frankivsk), then a year he was the director of the Ivano-Frankivsk AvtoZAZ-Daewoo LLC.

Career

From 2002 to 2006 he was deputy mayor of

Ivano-Frankivsk Ivano-Frankivsk ( uk, Іва́но-Франкі́вськ, translit=Iváno-Frankívśk ), formerly Stanyslaviv ( pl, Stanisławów ; german: Stanislau), is a city located in Western Ukraine. It is the administrative centre of Ivano-Frankivsk O ...

. Since 2006, he became a deputy of the Ivano-Frankivsk regional council, in the same year he became director of the department of economic policy of the

Lviv City Council Lviv ( uk, Львів) is the largest city in Western Ukraine, western Ukraine, and the List of cities in Ukraine, seventh-largest in Ukraine, with a population of . It serves as the administrative centre of Lviv Oblast and Lviv Raion, and is o ...

. From 2007, he was promoted to a First Deputy Mayor of Lviv. On December 26, 2014, Oleh Synyutka was appointed as the

. In the July

2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election Snap elections to the Ukrainian parliament were held on 21 July 2019. Originally scheduled to be held at the end of October, these elections were brought forward after newly inaugurated President of Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy dissolv ...

Synyutka was placed eight on the party list of

European Solidarity European Solidarity ( uk, Європейська солідарність, Yevropeis'ka solidarnist', YeS) is a political party in Ukraine. It has its roots in a parliamentary group called Solidarity dating from 2000 and has existed since in vario ...

. He was elected to parliament. Synyutka was the defeated candidate of European Solidarity for the post of Mayor of Lviv in the 2020 Lviv local election of 25 October 2020.Ihor Hryniv: "Before the locals were almost uninteresting to anyone, but today the struggle is for every village"
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(15 July 2020) Incumbent Mayor

Andriy Sadovyi Andriy Ivanovych Sadovyi ( uk, Андрій Іванович Садовий, ''Andriy Ivanovych Sadovyi'') is a Ukrainian politician. He is the mayor of Lviv, the administrative center of the Lviv Oblast of western Ukraine, former leader of the ...

was reelected in the second round of the Lviv mayoral election of 22 November 2020 with 62.25% of the vote (he had gained 40.09% in the first round). Runner up Synyutka got 37.75% of the vote (he had gained 31,1% in the first round).The TEC officially announced Sadovy's victory in Lviv

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(25 November 2020)

Family

He is married and has 2 children (daughter and son).

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Synyutka, Oleh 1970 births Living people People from Ternopil Oblast Vasyl Stefanyk Subcarpathian National University alumni Governors of Lviv Oblast Ninth convocation members of the Verkhovna Rada