Oleksandr Vilkul position held People's Deputy of Ukraine
Early political career
In 2003, Vilkul became a member of the Russophile Party of Regions. In 2005, he became head of the Kryvorizhska State Organization of the Party of Regions. From 2004 to 2006, he was also a head of the Kryvorizhskyi electoral headquarters of the Party of Regions.
In the 2006 Ukrainian parliamentary election, Vilkul was elected as a People's Deputy of Ukraine, representing the Party of Regions. In July 2006, he was chosen as Vice-Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Issues of Industrial and Regulatory Policy and Entrepreneurship.
Vilkul was re-elected in the 2007 Ukrainian parliamentary election. He was chosen as Vice-Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Industrial and Regulatory Policy and Entrepreneurship. As a People's Deputy, Vilkul achieved the redistribution of emission taxes in favour of local government budgets. As a result, oblasts got 70% of ecological dues.
In 2007, Vilkul was chosen as head of the Party of Regions' electoral headquarters. Amidst the 2010 Ukrainian presidential election, he served as head of the electoral headquarters of Viktor Yanukovych in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. Yanukovych would go on to win in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast and the election as a whole, though several irregularities were reported in the oblast's vote counting.According to The Ukrainian Week, Vilkul is closely linked to Ukrainian oligarch Rinat Akhmetov.
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