“Servant of the People” MP Sanchenko Holds Unconventional Meeting with Voters

The MP poured punch, and a DJ performed at the event.

On February 2, 2020, MP Oleksandr Sanchenko held an unconventional presentation of his parliamentary programme at Barbara Bar in the Atlas club. The event was informal, attended by friends and colleagues from the faction. Representatives of relevant ministries were also invited.

Among those invited were party colleagues Svyatoslav Yurash and Maryna Bardina (Serhiy Leshchenko's assistant in the 8th convocation). Also present were O.Torvald band leader Yevhen Halych, bloggers Ivan Marunich and Oleksandr Baraboshko, Atlas Weekend festival founder Dmytro Sydorenko, Z-Games founder Maksym Karpiy and others.

The MP poured punch for guests and handed out “parliamentary promises,” fortune-telling pastries, as well as stickers bearing his image.

“Today's event is my way of starting a tradition of unusual meetings with a deputy. Conditionally, there is a target audience that wants to convey information so that it can then be turned into legislative initiatives. I want to test how realistic this is. Accordingly, there will be a large networking component, with interesting people from different fields. One part of the event is where everyone gathers and socializes, and the other is a presentation of areas of activity. There will be about ten of them,” Sanchenko told TK Media.

The main goal of the event was networking.

“I invited party colleagues, friends, and acquaintances from the fields I plan to work in: ecology, youth policy, and creative industries. Many friends wanted to congratulate me, and for them this is also a reason to come. In this friendly format, I want to test an unusual way for a deputy to work with voters, because, as I see it, old models like ‘gather everyone in a House of Culture and lecture’ are becoming a thing of the past. Here there are other models of communication: one-on-one meetings on one side, and on the other, a part where I discuss my program ideas with the people who come. There will be people from the executive branch, the legislative branch, and simply representatives of the industry. That is, this networking will be valuable because it speeds up the process,” the MP said.

Who is Oleksandr Sanchenko?

On January 17, Oleksandr Sanchenko, a new MP from Servant of the People, took the oath in the Verkhovna Rada. Before being elected to parliament, Sanchenko was director of government relations and corporate social responsibility at the Atlas Weekend festival. 

In the parliamentary elections, Oleksandr Sanchenko ran under number 137 on the Servant of the People list and entered the Verkhovna Rada in place of Iryna Venediktova. On January 14, Iryna Venediktova resigned her mandate in connection with her appointment as acting Director of the State Bureau of Investigation.