Ihor Fris
Ihor Pavlovych Fris (Ukrainian: Ігор Павлович Фріс; born 29 June 1973) is a Ukrainian notary and politician currently serving as a People's Deputy of Ukraine from Ukraine's 84th electoral district since 29 August 2019. Early life and careerIhor Pavlovych Fris was born on 29 June 1973 in the city of Ivano-Frankivsk, then part of the Soviet Union. From 1990 to 1992, he worked at the Rempobuttekhnika metal processing plant as a fitter, before working as a fitter at Sapfir automobile plant for a year. He subsequently worked as commercial director of Totus LLC from 1993 to 1996 before working as director of Leo-F LLC until 1998.[1] In 1998, Fris graduated from the Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University, specialising in law. The same year, he began working at the Sezon cooperative.[1] From 1999 until 2019, he was a notary public in Ivano-Frankivsk, and from 2006 to 2014 served as Ukraine's permanent representative to the European commission of the International Union of Notaries.[2] People's Deputy of UkraineIn the 2015 Ukrainian local elections, Fris was a candidate for the Ivano-Frankivsk City Council's 26th district, nominated by UKROP. However, he was unsuccessful.[3] In the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election, Fris ran as a candidate for People's Deputy of Ukraine in Ukraine's 84th electoral district. He was the candidate of Servant of the People, although he was not a member of any party at the time of the election.[3] He was ultimately successful, defeating incumbent People's Deputy Mykhailo Dovbenko of European Solidarity and Batkivshchyna candidate Andriy Ivaskiv, garnering 22.0% of the vote to Ivaskiv's 14.40% and Dovbenko's 12.88%.[4] In the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine's parliament), Fris joined the Servant of the People faction, as well as the Verkhovna Rada Legal Committee.[3] In March 2020, Fris, along with multiple other People's Deputies, announced his opposition to a proposal by the Trilateral Contact Group on Ukraine aimed at ending the war in Donbas by bringing separatist representatives into the government of Ukraine.[3] References
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