Natalia Korolevska
[8][9] Korolevska has been a people's deputy in Ukraine's parliament for four of its convocations until, during the 9th Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada, her mandate was terminated on her own request in February 2023.[5] From 1992 Korolevska worked in several management functions, starting in a company set up by her older brother Kostiantyn,[14] earning a "Leader of middle business" award in 2004.[15] Korolevska decided to enter national politics: "I knew the most complex problems of the Donbas and sincerely wanted to solve them, but saw and understood that it is impossible to do so at the level of the regional council.[26] The faction stated Korolevska was expelled "for breach of parliamentary ethics and cooperation with the Presidential Administration"; she had been reprimanded previously.[39] In the October 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election Korolevska was again re-elected into parliament; this time after placing 8th on the electoral list of Opposition Bloc.[51] "Almost 20 years spent talking about European values and the principles of democracy has led us to the world of illusions and double standards."[56] The day after she was expelled from the "Bloc Yulia Tymoshenko-Batkivschyna"-faction (formerly BYuT faction) in the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian parliament) on 14 March 2012 she stated "Deputies from the so-called opposition have united with the majority factions; an anti-national majority consisting of representatives of the current and previous government has been formed in the Verkhovna Rada".[60] In 2009 she reached the 9th spot in that survey (six places higher than the Minister of Labor and Social Policy Lyudmyla Denisova);[61] "in 2009 she increased her presence in the coal market of Ukraine", according to Focus.