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Petro Symonenko is the first secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine.
Mr. Symonenko was a candidate in the 2004 Ukrainian presidential election, nominated by the Communist Party of Ukraine. Party member since 1978, and party chairman since 1993.
He is a Ukrainian delegate to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. From 1994 to 1996 he was a member of the Ukrainian parliament's Constitution Commission.
A presidential candidate in 1999, when he got 22.24% of the votes in the first round, finishing in second place. In the second round he won 37.8% of the votes when losing to Leonid Kuchma. His election program has classic communist leader content.
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