Pavlo Bakunets

Pavlo Andriiovych Bakunets is a Ukrainian politician and a People's Deputy of the 9th Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada.

Biography Pavlo Andriiovych Bakunets was born on July 10, 1987, in Yavoriv, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine. He received a BA from the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv, also attended UCU's Lviv Business School, and graduated from the University of Lviv.

Bakunets became a representative on the local council of Yavoriv, and was on the ethics committee. From 2014 to 2015, he was the secretary of Yavoriv Municipality, and in 2015, he was elected mayor of Yavoriv, a position he held until 2019. He was the leader of the Yavoriv branch of the Self Reliance political party, and is the cofounder of Youth of Yavoriv Raion, an NGO.

Parliamentary Activity On August 29, 2019, Bakunets became a Member of Ukrainian Parliament. In the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election, he was elected in Ukraine's 122nd electoral district and received 14.84% of the vote, a plurality.

Although elected a member of Self Reliance (the only Self Reliance MP elected in 2019), he joined the Trust parliamentary group once in the Verkhovna Rada, a move which was opposed by Self Reliance leader Oksana Syroyid.

In the Verkhovna Rada, he holds a number of positions. Bakunets is a member of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Law and Political Affairs.