Ruslan Stefanchuk
Ruslan Stefanchuk | |
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Руслан Стефанчук | |
Stefanchuk in 2022 | |
| Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada | |
| Assumed office 8 October 2021 | |
| Preceded by | Dmytro Razumkov |
| First Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada | |
| In office 29 August 2019 – 8 October 2021 | |
| Chairman | Dmytro Razumkov |
| Preceded by | Iryna Herashchenko |
| Succeeded by | Oleksandr Kornienko |
| Representative of the President to the Verkhovna Rada | |
| In office 21 May 2019 – 7 October 2021 | |
| Preceded by | Iryna Lutsenko |
| Succeeded by | Fedir Venislavskyi |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 29 October 1975 Ternopil, Soviet Union |
| Political party | Servant of the People |
| Education | Khmelnytskyi Institute of Regional Administration and Law Khmelnytskyi National University |
Ruslan Oleksiyovych Stefanchuk (Ukrainian: Руслан Олексійович Стефанчук; born 29 October 1975) is a Ukrainian politician and lawyer serving as the chairman of the Verkhovna Rada since October 2021.
Stefanchuk was touted as the ideologue of Volodymyr Zelenskyy's election campaign in the 2019 Ukrainian presidential election. He was elected to the Ukrainian parliament as a member of the Servant of the People party (placed 2nd on the party list) in the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election.
Stefanchuk is one of the authors of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's 2019 election program. He was also the Representative of the President of Ukraine Zelenskyy at the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine's national parliament) from 21 May 2019 until 7 October 2021, and is a chairman of the Verkhovna Rada since then.