Ukrainian Parliamentarian Olha Bohomolets (Petro Poroshenko Bloc faction) has submitted documents for registration as a candidate for president of the country to the Central Election Commission of Ukraine (CEC).
On Jan. 16 she brought and filed documents for participation in the presidential election campaign in Ukraine on March 31 as a self-nominated candidate, the CEC press service told Interfax-Ukraine.
Bohomolets is a dermatovenereologist, great-granddaughter of academician and scientist-pathophysiologist, President of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian USSR Oleksandr Bohomolets (1930-1946). In 2003-2014, she was the chief doctor of the clinic founded by her, the Dr. Bohomolets Institute of Dermatology and Cosmetology.
During the Revolution of Dignity, she was the coordinator of the medical service of Euromaidan. In May 2014, she participated in the presidential elections in Ukraine and took eighth place in the first round with a score of 1.91 percent.
In the parliamentary elections in October 2014, Bohomolets was elected as a parliamentarian on the list of Petro Poroshenko Bloc with No. 3. She is the Head of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Health. From September 1, 2014, she also became a non-staff adviser to the president of Ukraine on humanitarian issues.
On December 6, 2018, Bohomolets announced her intention to run for the presidency of Ukraine. Head of the BPP faction Iryna Lutsenko noted that the faction was disappointed with such a decision of Bohomolets.
On December 20, Poroshenko dismissed Bohomolets from the post of presidential adviser, and on December 22, she stated that she was proposed to resign the mandate of a deputy in the BPP faction.
