Lesya Orobitsch

Biography of Lesya Orobitsch

Date of birth: 03.05.1982

Place of birth. Education. Born in Kyiv. In 2005, she graduated from the Institute of International Relations of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv with a Master's degree in International Law and Translation from English.

Career. 2002-2004 - Lawyer at Sota LLC, Assistant Lawyer at the Private Company Professional (Kyiv). March-October 2004 - Assistant-Advisor to the Ukrainian MP Yuri Orobitsch. The same was her father. He died in October 2006 in a car accident in Kyiv. 2004-2005 - Legal assistant for the leasing development project in Ukraine (World Bank Group, Kyiv), Lawyer at Sota LLC. 2005-2007 - Junior Lawyer-Advisor of the Kyiv office of Baker & McKenzie - CI Limited. Since May 2007 - Entrepreneur, co-founder of Retail Credit Group LLC. 2007-2012 - Deputy of the VI Congress, elected member of the Our Ukraine - People's Defense (NUN) list. Chairman of the Subcommittee on Basic Education of the Committee on Science and Education of the Verkhovna Rada. Since December 2012 - Deputy of the VII Congress of the Fatherland Party (No. 26 on the list). Secretary of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Foreign Affairs. Non-partisan. Actively participated in the events on the Maidan, coordinated the activities of the opposition forces, the Automaidan, dealt with the release of detained activists.

On March 31, 2014, it was announced that Lesya Orobitsch had left the Fatherland Party to fulfill her election promise and run as an independent candidate for the office of Mayor of Kyiv.

On April 1, 2014, Lesya Orobitsch proposed at a press conference in the Verkhovna Rada to elect the mayor not for 1 year, but for 5 years, to unite the positions of the mayor and the head of the Kyiv City State Administration, and to revive the district councils. On May 13, on the last day of document verification, the election commission revoked Lesya Orobitsch's registration as a candidate for the office of Mayor of Kyiv. On May 15, ZIK unanimously voted to restore Orobitsch as a candidate for the upcoming elections, both for mayor and for the Kyiv City Council. After the elections on May 25, Orobitsch finished second, receiving 8.46% of the voter votes.

On July 27, 2014, the party Powerful Ukraine was registered, founded by Lesya Orobitsch and also placed at the helm of the new political force.

On September 5, 2014, she announced that she would not participate in the parliamentary elections scheduled for October, due to her health undermined over the past two years.

Views and Ratings. Already during the 2007 election campaign, Lesya Orobitsch was associated by Ukrainska Pravda with the so-called Viktor Baloga group, the secretary of Ukrainian president Viktor Yushchenko. The reason was that Lesya's father, Yuri Orobitsch, actively participated in the election campaign for the mayor of Mukachevo in 2004. At that time, the Baloga candidate's victory was 'stolen' and Orobitsch was beaten in this key conflict of dirty elections.

Soon, parliamentary life showed that Orobitsch truly was a person from Baloga's 'circle'. In March 2008, she became a member of the new, pro-presidential party United Center, competing with Our Ukraine. She became a member of the presidium of this project, which was praised by the chairman of the secretariat.

Moreover, Orobitsch became a notable participant in the 'sneaky' resistance between Bankova and the group of deputies of NUNS with the Tymoshenko government and BYuT. Thus, she submitted a resolution to the Verkhovna Rada for the establishment of a temporary investigative committee on the purchase of land in the Kyiv region by the influential 'bütovists' Bohdan Hubs'.

However, in November 2010, after President Viktor Yanukovych appointed Baloga as Minister of Emergencies, Orobitsch left United Center.

At the end of February 2014, Lesya Orobitsch expressed during the political crisis in Ukraine for a possible ban on the activities of the Communist Party of Ukraine.

Business. In May 2007, Orobitsch became a co-founder of Capital Retail Credit Group. As stated on the company’s website, she collects information about all players in the mortgage market: government agencies, banks, insurance companies, developers, appraisal companies... Provides comprehensive services related to loan procurement.

Marital status. Husband - Alexander Omelchuk. Raising two daughters - Sophia (born in 2008) and Erika (born in 2010).

May 2, 2022