Oleksiy Yuriyovych Kucherenko (; born April 3, 1961) is a Ukrainian politician. He was Minister of Housing and Communal Services from 2007 to 2010. Kucherenko previously served as Governor of Zaporizhzhia Oblast from 2000 to 2001.Ex-Minister of Housing and Utilities Kucherenko: The IMF loan is only the beginning. The government will get new funds while people will get new prices and tariffs. Gordonua.com. March 13, 2015
Biography Kucherenko was a Member of Ukrainian parliament (Verkhovna Rada) of III (he won a seat in constituency number 80 located in Zaporizhia Oblast as a self-nominated candidate), V (as a candidate of the Our Ukraine Bloc), VI convocation (as a candidate for the Our Ukraine–People's Self-Defense Bloc). The following election, the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election, Kucherenko failed as a candidate for the Petro Poroshenko Bloc to win a parliamentary seat in constituency 216 located in Kyiv, he lost by a small margin of 100 votes. In the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election he returned to parliament for Batkivshchyna.CEC counts 100 percent of vote in Ukraine's parliamentary elections, Ukrinform (July 26, 2019) Results of the extraordinary elections of the People's Deputies of Ukraine 2019, Ukrayinska Pravda (July 21, 2019)
He is a Candidate of Sciences (PhD) in sociological sciences. Battle for Kyiv. Life, career, promises of Klitschko, Vereshchuk, Palchevsky and others, Ukrayinska Pravda (September 15, 2020)
Kucherenko was the candidate of Batkivshchyna for the post of Mayor of Kyiv in the 2020 Kyiv local election set for October 25, 2020. Another politician will run for mayor of Kyiv, Ukrayinska Pravda (August 12, 2020)Rada appoints next elections to local self-govt bodies for Oct 25, Interfax-Ukraine (July 15, 2020) In the election he received 45,823 votes, securing fourth place but losing the election to incumbent Mayor Vitali Klitschko who was re-elected in the first round of the election with 50.52% of the votes, 365,161 people had voted for him.Vitali Klitschko wins in first round of Kyiv mayor election, Ukrinform (November 6, 2020)
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External links Dovidka.com.ua