Vasyliy Humenyuk completed a law degree at the
Ivan Franko National University of Lviv after serving in the
Soviet army. As a member of the
Communist Party of Ukraine (although he insist he "never was and never will be a
Leninist") Humenyuk was mayor of
Yaremche from 1984 until the first democratic local elections in Ukraine in 1991. Later he headed the customs service in
Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast. Protyvsikh claims "friends from around the world" assisted him in obtained the ₴2.5 million deposit needed for his registration as presidential candidate. Protyvsikh considered
Yulia Tymoshenko his main opponent in the presidential elections. Currently Protyvsikh is president of the Ivano-Frankivsk
Chamber of Commerce. In the 2012 parliamentary elections, he ran in the 83rd electoral district (Ivano-Frankivsk) as a self-nominated candidate, and took 8th place among 10 candidates with 627 votes (0.62%). ==References==