Early Political Career
Volodymyr Chemerys is a founding member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Union - one of the first perestroika organizations in Ukraine advocating renessaince of national culture and independence (now a human rights-advocating group)
He also took part in the legendary 1991 student protests in Kiev.
Chemerys was elected to the Verkhovna Rada from a Frankivsky constituency #265 in the city of Lviv, after nominated and supported by the right-centrist Ukrainian Republican Party. Chemerys says he was mostly relying on people-to-people communications and small group of dedicated campaign volunteers so that the whole campaigning cost him and the party as low as U.S. $600.
Later, Volodymyr Chemerys was also elected as the regional party leader in the city of Kiev.
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