Oleh Synyutka

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 Soviet army. 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. 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. From 2007, he was promoted to a First Deputy Mayor of Lviv. On December 26, 2014, Oleh Synyutka was appointed as the Governor of Lviv Oblast.^[2]

In the July 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election Synyutka was placed eight on the party list of European Solidarity.^[3] He was elected to parliament.^[4]

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.^[5][6][7] Incumbent Mayor Andriy Sadovyi 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).^[5] Runner up Synyutka got 37.75% of the vote (he had gained 31,1% in the first round).^[5]