Volodymyr Makeyenko as number 19 on the Party of Regions national election list. On 25 January 2014 Makeyenko was appointed head of the Kiev City State Administration by President Viktor Yanukovych. The same day Oleksandr Popov was fired as Head of Kiev City Administration. Acting President Oleksandr Turchynov dismissed Makeyenko from the post of the head of Kyiv City State Administration on 7 March 2014. In the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election Makeyenko was placed 31st on the electoral list of Strong Ukraine. In the election Strong Ukraine failed to clear the 5% election threshold (it got 3.11% of the votes) thus he
Viktor Yanukovych Yanukovych first ran for president in 2004: he advanced to the runoff election, and initially defeated his opponent. However, the election was fraught with allegations of fraud and voter intimidation. This caused widespread citizen protests and Kyiv's Independence Square was occupied in what became known as the Orange Revolution. The Ukrainian Supreme Court nullified the runoff election, and ordered a second runoff. Yanukovych lost this second election to Viktor Yushchenko. He served as Prime Minister for a second time from 4 August 2006 to 18 December 2007, under President Yushchenko. Yanukovych was elected President in 2010, defeating Yulia Tymoshenko. The