Yevhen Marchuk

Prime Minister of Ukraine Marchuk was appointed acting Prime Minister of Ukraine on 1 March 1995, From April to December 1998, Marchuk was the leader of the party, and from July 1998 Marchuk also headed a parliamentary committee in Social Policy and Labor.

When the SDPU(o) refused to back Marchuk in the 1999 Ukrainian presidential election, he left to create his own Social Democratic Union. Later, he was the Defense Minister of Ukraine from June 2003 to September 2004.

Marchuk strongly supported the launching of Ukrayinska Pravda by Georgiy Gongadze.

Marchuk was pivotal in having Leonid Derkach fired in 2001, following the Cassette Scandal.

During the 2006 Ukrainian parliamentary election, Marchuk led the Electoral Bloc of Yevhen Marchuk and Unity of Oleksandr Omelchenko, which included his own party, the Party of Freedom. The Electoral Bloc not make it into the Verkhovna Rada, winning only 0.06% of the votes.

Later life and death In May 2008, Marchuk was appointed one of the personal advisors to President Viktor Yushchenko.

In June 2015, he was appointed by President Poroshenko a Ukrainian special representative in one of the subgroups of the Trilateral Contact Group on Ukraine. Marchuk again represented Ukraine in the Trilateral Contact Group from November 2018 to May 2019.