Yanukovych II cabinet

Viktor Yanukovych, January 2007

Coalition partner in the second Yanukovych cabinet

logo	Political party
	Party of Regions (PdR)
	Communist Party of Ukraine (KPU)
	Socialist Party of Ukraine (SPU)

The second Yanukovych cabinet was the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine between August 4, 2006 and December 18, 2007 . The coalition led by Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych consisted of the Party of Regions , the Communist Party of Ukraine and the Socialist Party of Ukraine .

Beginning

The cabinet was created over 4 months after the parliamentary elections in Ukraine on March 26, 2006 and the subsequent parliamentary crisis that arose in June 2006 as a new edition of the coalition between the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc , the People's Union Our Ukraine and the Socialist Party of Ukraine It was decided that Yulia Tymoshenko would again take over the post of prime minister.

The months-long negotiations that followed failed because of President Viktor Yushchenko , who shied away from working with Yulia Tymoshenko as Prime Minister and also spoke out against the plan to make the chairman of the Socialist Party Oleksandr Moros President of Parliament, as his confidante Petro Poroshenko was also seeking this post. This prompted the Socialist Party to leave the coalition before it was established.

A coalition of the Party of Regions , the KPU and the Socialist Party was then formed , which the People's Union Our Ukraine joined , at least in part, making the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc the only noteworthy opposition party.

On August 2, 2006, Viktor Yushchenko announced that he would propose Viktor Yanukovych for the Prime Minister's office. With the coalition agreement between Yanukovych and Yushchenko and the confirmation of Yanukovych as Prime Minister by the Verkhovna Rada on August 6, the four-month government crisis in Ukraine was initially over.

The End

On April 2, 2007, the Verkhovna Rada was dissolved by President Viktor Yushchenko after more than a dozen opposition MPs defected to the government coalition in March 2007 under the leadership of former Prime Minister Anatoly Kinach . However, according to the Ukrainian constitution, only entire parliamentary blocks were allowed to change factions, not individual MPs. With this change, said Yushchenko, the government is trying to illegally increase its power. Thereupon, Yushchenko, Yanukovych and Parliamentary President Oleksandr Moros agreed new elections for September 30, 2007, provided that at least 150 MPs from both sides formally vacated their seats in order to create the legal conditions for the dissolution of parliament and subsequent new elections. After this happened, the agreed new election took place, from which the second Tymoshenko cabinet emerged with Yulia Tymoshenko as prime minister.

Composition of the Cabinet

Office	Surname	Political party
Prime Minister	Viktor Yanukovych	Party of Regions
First Vice Prime Minister	Mykola Azarov	Party of Regions
Vice-Prime Minister, Minister for Housing and Municipal Services until March 21, 2007	Volodymyr Rybak	Party of Regions
Vice Prime Minister	Andrij Kljujew	Party of Regions
Vice Prime Minister	Dmytro Tabachnyk	Party of Regions
Vice Prime Minister	Viktor Slauta	Party of Regions
Vice Prime Minister	Volodymyr Radchenko / Oleksandr Kusmuk	- / Party of Regions
Foreign minister	Borys Tarasyuk / Arseniy Yatsenyuk	People's Union Our Ukraine / non-partisan
Interior minister	Jurij Lutsenko / Wassyl Zusko	- / Socialist Party of Ukraine
Defense Minister	Anatoly Hryzenko
Economics Minister	Volodymyr Makucha / Anatolij Kinach
Minister of Agriculture	Yury Melnyk	Ukrainian People's Party
Minister for Coal Industry	Serhiy Tulub	Party of Regions
Minister for Housing	Oleksandr Popov	non-partisan
Minister for Culture and Tourism	Ihor Lichowyj / Jurij Bohuzkyj
Minister for Civil Protection	Viktor Baloha / Nestor Schufrytsch	People's Union Our Ukraine / Party of Regions
Minister of Education	Stanislav Nikolayenko
Minister for Fuel and Energy	Yuri Boiko	Party of Regions
Environment Minister	Wassyl Jarty	Party of Regions
Minister for Industrial Policy	Anatoly Holovko	KPU
Minister for Labor and Social Affairs	Mychailo Papiev	Party of Regions
Minister for Family, Youth and Sport	Yuri Pavlenko	People's Union Our Ukraine
Minister of Health	Yuri Polyachenko
Minister for Transport and Communication	Mykola Rudkowskyj	Socialist Party of Ukraine
Minister of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine	Anatoly Tolstouchow
Minister of Justice	Roman Swarych	People's Union Our Ukraine

See also

• List of Ukrainian governments

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Yushchenko suggests rival as premier  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , in tagesschau.de on August 3, 2006; Retrieved December 6, 2015  
2. ↑ ^{a b} Andreas Kappeler , Little History of the Ukraine, pp. 291,292; CH Beck Verlag 2014, ISBN 978-3-406-67019-0
3. ^ Q&A: Ukrainian parliamentary poll on BBC of October 1, 2007; Retrieved December 6, 2015