Oleh Meidych

Meidych waas boron on 24 November 1970 in Kalynivka, which was then part of the Ukrainian SSR in the Soviet Union.^[2] He later received a higher education.^[2]

Meidych is director of Kalinov Dairy Plant Ltd.^[3] He has also founded the private enterprise "Prodholod", the agricultural company "Ivan Sirko Regiment", and the nonprofit "Wrestling Association of the Vinnytsia Oblast".^[2][4]

In 2002 and 2010, he ran for the Vinnytsia Oblast Council, both times unsuccessfully as an independent candidate and later a candidate of the Socialist Party of Ukraine. Meidich worked as an assistant to People's Deputy Petro Gasyuk [uk] from 2007 to 2012.^[4]

From 2015, Meidych was a member of the Vinnytsia Oblast Council, serving as head of the Batkivshchyna party in the council,^[5] as well as a member of the Standing Committee on Regulation of Communal Property and Privatization.^[3]

He was a proxy candidate of Yulia Tymoshenko in the 2019 Ukrainian presidential election.^[6]

In the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election, Meidych was a successful candidate for People's Deputy of Ukraine, running in Ukraine's 18th electoral district as a member of Batkivshchyna. He currently serves as First Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Agrarian Policy and Land Relations in the Verkhovna Rada.^[7]