Oleksandr Klymenko (2014 Ukrainian presidential candidate)

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 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.

[2] But he withdrew his candidacy on May 18 "to support Petro Poroshenko as the sole representative of the national democratic forces".