Oleksandr Moroz

Oleksandr Moroz
Олександр Мороз
Moroz in 2003
Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada
In office
6 July 2006  4 December 2007
Preceded byVolodymyr Lytvyn
Succeeded byArseniy Yatsenyuk
In office
18 May 1994  7 July 1998
Preceded byIvan Plyushch
Succeeded byOleksandr Tkachenko
People's Deputy of Ukraine
In office
15 May 1990  23 November 2007
ConstituencyCommunist Party of Ukraine, Kyiv Oblast, District No.224 (1990–1994)
Socialist Party of Ukraine, Kyiv Oblast, No.223 (1994–1998)
Socialist Party of Ukraine, Kyiv Oblast, No.92 (1998–2002)
Socialist Party of Ukraine, No.1 (2002–2007)
Personal details
Born (1944-02-29) 29 February 1944
Buda, Tarashcha Raion, Kyiv Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR
(now Ukraine)
Political partySocialist Party of Ukraine (1991–2016)
Socialist Party of Oleksandr Moroz (since 2016)
Other political
affiliations
Communist Party of Ukraine (1972–1991)
SpouseValentyna Andriyivna (née Lavrynenko)
ChildrenIryna (1966)
Ruslana (1972)
Signature
Websitehttp://www.spu.in.ua/leader.php

Oleksandr Oleksandrovych Moroz (born 29 February 1944) is a Ukrainian politician. He was the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada twice, from 1994 to 1998 and again from 2006 to 2007. Moroz is one of the founders and the leader of the Socialist Party of Ukraine, formerly an influential political party in Ukraine. Moroz lost parliamentary representation when the Socialist Party failed to secure sufficient number of votes (2.86%) in the 2007 snap parliamentary election, falling 0.14% short of the 3% election threshold.