
Petro Symonenko
People's Deputy of Ukraine of the 2nd–7th convocations; from December 2012 to October 2014 – member of the Verkhovna Rada Committee of the 7th convocation on Legal Policy; for many convocations he was the permanent head of the CPU faction.
Since July 24, 2015, all communist parties in Ukraine cannot be subjects of the electoral process or take part in elections. That is, they are banned.
Despite the ban on the CPU, on January 29, 2019, Petro Symonenko submitted documents to register as a presidential candidate nominated by the Communist Party, which is banned in Ukraine.
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