Oleksandr Ivanovych Klymenko (Ukrainian: Олександр Іванович Клименко; born April 14, 1965, in Marinka, Donetsk Oblast) is a Ukrainian politician, entrepreneur. From late 2013 until 2021, he was a leader of the Ukrainian People's Party.^[1]

Biography

Until 1998 there is little or no information on Klymenko, except that he was born in a small city just outside Donetsk. Sometimes before 1998 Klymenko also was a director of the "Enerhozbutprom". In 1999, he graduated the Donetsk Institute of Economics and Business Law.

In 1998–2005 Klymenko was a chairman of shareholders council of the "Donbasenerhobud" and the president of "Leasing-Center" in Donetsk.

In 2002 parliamentary elections as a nonpartisan Klymenko ran for the Supreme Council of Ukraine in district 107 of the Luhansk Oblast finishing with 14.6% in the third place out of 12 contenders. In 2004 he joined the Ukrainian People's Party. In April 2005 to July 2006 Klymenko was a deputy governor of the Donetsk Oblast. In 2006 Donetsk city mayoral elections he gained 6%. In 2006 parliamentary elections as a member of Ukrainian National Bloc of Kostenko and Plyushch Klymenko unsuccessfully ran for parliament again being placed #7 on the party's list. In 2007 parliamentary elections he finally became the People's Deputy of Ukraine on the party list of the Our Ukraine–People's Self-Defense Bloc as #50. In 2012 Klymenko headed the electoral campaign of Our Ukraine in Donetsk Oblast.

On October 5, 2013, Klymenko was elected the leader of Ukrainian People's Party at the 14th party's congress.^[1]

On March 29, 2014, he submitted documents to the Central Election Commission of Ukraine as a candidate for the 2014 Ukrainian presidential election as a leader of the Ukrainian People's Party.^[2] But he withdrew his candidacy on May 18 "to support Petro Poroshenko as the sole representative of the national democratic forces".^[3]