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Viktoria Vahnier

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Viktoria Vahnier
Вікторія Вагнєр
Official portrait, 2019
People's Deputy of Ukraine
Assumed office
29 August 2019
Preceded byYuriy Odarchenko
ConstituencyKherson Oblast, No. 183
Personal details
Born (1981-05-21) 21 May 1981 (age 43)
Georgiyevka [kk], Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union (now Qalbatau, Kazakhstan)
Political partyServant of the People
Other political
affiliations
Alma materNational University of Kharkiv

Viktoria Oleksandrivna Vahnier (Ukrainian: Вікторія Олександрівна Вагнєр; born 21 May 1981) is a Ukrainian politician currently serving as a People's Deputy of Ukraine from Servant of the People representing Ukraine's 183rd electoral district since 29 August 2019.

Early life and career

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Viktoria Oleksandrivna Vahnier was born on 21 May 1981 in the village of Qalbatau [kk] (then called Georgiyevka), in what was then the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union. She is a graduate of the Kherson Basic Medical College as an obstetric paramedic, and from the National University of Kharkiv with a specialisation in medical business. She also specialised in obstetrics and gynaecology after completing an internship at the O. S. Luchanskyi City Clinical Hospital. She is currently studying at the Kherson National Technical University's public management and administration faculty.[1]

From 2016, Vahnier was head doctor of the Oblast Rehabilitation Hospital of the Kherson Oblast Council. Prior to this, she headed the Oberih company, helping Ukrainian veterans of the war in Donbas, and she is additionally co-founder of the Ukrainian Life charitable foundation. She is the widow of Vladyslav Kovalov, a doctor who was killed in Donetsk Oblast.[1]

Political career

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In the 2015 Ukrainian local elections, Vahnier was an unsuccessful candidate in elections to the Kherson Oblast Council as a candidate from the Petro Poroshenko Bloc.[1]

In the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election, Vahnier ran for the office of People's Deputy of Ukraine from Ukraine's 183rd electoral district as the candidate of Servant of the People. At the time of the election, she was an independent.[2] This time, she was successfully elected, winning with 39.36% of the vote. In second place was former People's Deputy Mykhailo Opanashchenko [uk] of the pro-Russian Opposition Platform — For Life party with 14.56%. In fourth place was incumbent People's Deputy Yuriy Odarchenko of Batkivshchyna, who won only 7.31% of the vote.[3]

In the Verkhovna Rada (parliament of Ukraine), Vahnier joined the Servant of the People faction and the Verkhovna Rada Committee on National Health, Healthcare, and Health Insurance. She is also a member of the inter-factional associations South Ukraine and the Parliamentary Platform to Fight Tuberculosis.[2]

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Вагнєр Вікторія Олександрівна" [Vahnier, Viktoria Oleksandrivna]. LB.ua (in Ukrainian). 19 November 2019. Retrieved 22 December 2022.
  2. ^ a b "Вагнєр Вікторія Олександрівна" [Vahnier, Viktoria Oleksandrivna]. Chesno (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 22 December 2022.
  3. ^ "Відомості про підрахунок голосів виборців в одномандатному виборчому окрузі №183" [Information about counting of voters' votes in single-mandate electoral district No. 183]. Central Election Commission (Ukraine) (in Ukrainian). Archived from the original on 28 July 2019. Retrieved 22 December 2022.