Stepan Ivakhiv

In 2010 he was elected a deputy of the Volyn regional council in a multi-member constituency on the electoral list of the Volyn regional organization of the Party of Regions. Member of the Standing Committee on International Cooperation, Foreign Economic Relations and Investment.^[4]

In the 2012 parliamentary election, he ran for the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine's parliament) as a self-nominated candidate in Ukraine's 21st electoral district (Kovel, Kovel, Ratniv, Starovyzhiv, Shatsk districts) and won, receiving more than 37% of the vote and less than one percent ahead of Ihor Huz.

On 1 November 2018, he was included in the sanctions list of Russia.

On 29 August 2019, he joined the For the Future faction in the Verkhovna Rada.^[5]

Since 29 August 2019, Ivakhiv is First Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Environmental Policy and Nature Management.^[6] Member of the Group for Interparliamentary Relations with the Czech Republic since 19 November 2019.^[7] Since 18 December 2019, a member of the group for inter-parliamentary relations with Sweden.^[8] Member of the Group for Inter-Parliamentary Relations with Slovenia since 18 December 2019.^[9] He has been a member of the Inter-Parliamentary Relations Group with Canada since 15 October 2019.^[10]

According to analysts of the CHESNO Movement, Ivakhiva's company makes money on the "green" tariff.

He was a truant from committee meetings in the Verkhovna Rada of the 8th convocation. He was engaged in non-personal voting. He is a subject of an anti-corruption investigation into political corruption. Voted for dictatorial laws on January 16, 2014.^[11]

He was engaged in bribing voters. In particular, the charity fund "Patriots of Volyn" of self-nominated candidate Stepan Ivakhiv presented a blanket and various household appliances to the winners of the nominations during the celebration of the Day of Rostan village in Shatsk district, Volyn region.^[12] According to the Civil Network "OPORA", it became known that in September 2014, on the eve of the parliamentary elections, a gift certificate from parliamentary candidate Stepan Ivakhiv for the construction of a stadium near the school was placed in the corridor of secondary school No. 12 in Kovel.^[13]