Petro Symonenko
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Petro Mykolayovich Symonenko (born August 1, 1952 in Donetsk) is the first secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine.
Symonenko was a candidate in the last two presidential elections, including the 2004 Ukrainian presidential election, nominated by the Communist Party of Ukraine. He has been a party member since 1978, and party chairman since 1993.
He is a Ukrainian delegate to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. From 1994 to 1996 he was a member of the Ukrainian parliament's Constitution Commission.
He was a presidential candidate in 1999, when he got 22.24% of the votes in the first round, finishing in second place. In the second round he won 37.8% of the votes when losing to Leonid Kuchma. His election program has classic communist leader content. Symonenko's support sharply declined during the 2004 presidential elections, largely because Kuchma could not run and some of his former supporters had defected from his party. Symonenko received 5% of the votes and came in fourth place, unable to get into the controversial runoff which would cause the Orange Revolution.
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