Petro Symonenko

Petro Symonenko

Petro Mykolayovych Symonenko (Ukrainian: Петро́ Микола́йович Симоне́нко Russian: Пётр Никола́евич Симоне́нко; born August 1, 1952) is a Ukrainian politician and the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine. Symonenko was the Communist Party's candidate in both the 1999 and 2004 presidential elections. During the Ukrainian presidential election, 2010 he was the candidate of the Election bloc of left and central left political forces. During the 2010 election he received 3.54% of the votes.