Serhiy Sobolyev

From 1990–1994, he was national deputy of Ukraine 1st Convocation by Khortitskiy Constituency number 184, Zaporizhzhya region.

[3] From December 1999 to April 2001 he served as adviser to the prime minister of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko.

He was chairman of the Subcommittee on Legislative Support of executive power and civil service (in administrative reform) Committee on Legal Policy.

In the sixth convocation he headed the subcommittee on cooperation with state agencies, local governments, enterprises, institutions and organizations of the Committee for Justice, a member of the Permanent Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.

[3] On 17 March 2010 – he became the head of the opposition of the Cabinet of Ministers, which is the de facto group of Yulia Tymoshenko.

According to Arseny Yatsenyuk in October 2012, if he had won the democratic opposition forces in the parliamentary elections he would have become prime minister.

[citation needed] Since 12 December in the 7th Convocation he was national deputy of the All-Ukrainian Union "Fatherland", number 8 on the list.

[6] Following annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation Sobolev drafted a bill "On the rights and freedoms of citizens in the temporarily occupied territories" that postulated that Autonomous Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol should be regarded as "temporarily occupied by Russia".

[7] His father is Vladislav Anatoliyvych (1935–) a worker at Zaporozhye aluminum plant and Head of DST.