Vasyl Humenyuk

Vasyl Protyvsikh (born Vasyl Vasylyovych Humenyuk, , born October 16, 1946 ) is a Ukrainian politician. He is best known as a self-nominated candidate in the 2010 Ukrainian presidential election, for which he changed his second name to Protyvsikh (ukr. for "Against all"). During the 2010 election he received 0.16% of the votes.

Biography Vasyliy Humenyuk completed a law degree at the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv after serving in the Soviet army. As a member of the Communist Party of Ukraine (although he insist he "never was and never will be a Leninist" ) Humenyuk was mayor of Yaremche from 1984 until the first democratic local elections in Ukraine in 1991. Later he headed the customs service in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast.

Protyvsikh claims "friends from around the world" assisted him in obtained the ₴2.5 million deposit needed for his registration as presidential candidate. Protyvsikh considered Yulia Tymoshenko his main opponent in the presidential elections.

Currently Protyvsikh is president of the Ivano-Frankivsk Chamber of Commerce.

In the 2012 parliamentary elections, he ran in the 83rd electoral district (Ivano-Frankivsk) as a self-nominated candidate, and took 8th place among 10 candidates with 627 votes (0.62%).