Yatsenyuk I cabinet

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Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk
Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin
Interior Minister Arsen Avakov
Defense Minister Stepan Poltorak

In the wake of the unrest in Ukraine and in the run-up to the crisis in Crimea and eastern Ukraine , the Yatsenyuk cabinet was elected as a transitional government by the Ukrainian parliament, the Verkhovna Rada , whose distribution of seats goes back to the parliamentary elections in Ukraine in 2012 . It closed on July 24, 2014 and offered his resignation. However, Parliament did not accept the resignation. New parliamentary elections were scheduled for October 26, 2014, and the successor government began its work on December 2, 2014 .

Composition of the Cabinet and important offices

The Yatsenyuk cabinet was composed of eight representatives of Yulia Tymoshenko's Fatherland Party , eight non-party members (especially representatives of the Maidan protest movement ) and four representatives of Oleh Tjahnybok's Svoboda party . Until then standing in government are not represented in the cabinet Party of Regions of Mykola Azarov , the UDAR Party of Vitali Klitschko and the Communist Party of Petro Symonenko .

The ministers were proposed by Arseniy Yatsenyuk and confirmed with 331 votes. These are in detail:

Portfolio minister Political party Taking office Resignation Change of party
Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk   Fatherland February 26, 2014   Popular Front
First Vice Prime Minister Vitaly Jarema   Fatherland February 26, 2014 19th June 2014 -
Interior minister Arsen Avakov   Fatherland February 26, 2014   Popular Front
Infrastructure Minister Maxym Burbak   Fatherland February 26, 2014   Popular Front
Minister of Social Affairs Lyudmyla Denisova   Fatherland February 26, 2014   Popular Front
Minister of Justice Pavlo Petrenko   Fatherland February 26, 2014   Popular Front
Minister for Energy and Coal Industry Yuri Prodan   Fatherland February 26, 2014 -
Minister in the Cabinet of Ministers Ostap Semerak   Fatherland February 26, 2014   Popular Front
Second Vice Prime Minister and Minister for Regional Development, Building and Municipal Housing Volodymyr Hroysman   independent February 26, 2014   Block Petro Poroshenko
Minister of Sport and Youth Dmytro Bulatov   independent February 26, 2014 -
Education and Science Minister Serhiy Kwit   independent February 26, 2014   Block Petro Poroshenko
Minister of Health Oleh Musij   independent February 26, 2014 -
Minister of Culture Yevhen Nyshchuk   independent February 26, 2014 -
Economics Minister Pavlo Sheremeta   independent February 26, 2014 2nd September 2014 -
Anatoly Maksyuta   independent 3rd September 2014 -
Finance minister Olexander Schlapak   independent February 26, 2014 -
Foreign minister Andrij Deschytsia   independent February 26, 2014 19th June 2014 -
Pavlo Klimkin   independent 19th June 2014 -
Third Vice Prime Minister Olexander Sych   Swoboda February 26, 2014 -
Minister for Ecology and Natural Resources Andrij Mochnyk   Swoboda February 26, 2014 -
Minister for Agricultural Policy and Food Ihor Schwajka   Swoboda February 26, 2014 -
Defense Minister Ihor Tenjuch   Swoboda February 26, 2014 March 25, 2014 -
Mychajlo Kowal   independent March 25, 2014 3rd July 2014 -
Valery Heletej   independent 3rd July 2014 October 14, 2014 -
Stepan Poltorak   independent October 14, 2014 -

Other important offices:

Changes

On March 25, 2014, Ihor Tenjuch resigned after criticism for his reluctance to deal with the Crimean crisis . Mychajlo Kowal became his successor . He was replaced by Valery Heletej on July 3, 2014 , as Kowal moved to the post of Deputy Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine. Heletej, in turn, made way for Stepan Poltorak on October 14, 2014 .

On June 19, 2014, the First Vice Prime Minister, Vitaly Jarema , was appointed as the new General Prosecutor of Ukraine. His previous position in the cabinet became vacant and not filled. On the same day, Pavlo Klimkin succeeded Andrij Deschyzja as Foreign Minister .

prehistory

On February 22, 2014, the Ukrainian parliament deposed President Viktor Yanukovych and replaced the Azarov II cabinet from Mykola Azarov , which was dominated by his Party of Regions . The compatibility of this process with the Ukrainian constitution is considered controversial, but is recognized as legitimate by all states that emerged from the Soviet Union as well as by all western states except Russia . The Maidan protest movement played a key role in the establishment of the government .

Assessments

Yatsenyuk called his cabinet a "political kamikaze cabinet" because it would have to cope with enormous and unpopular tasks.

An agreement on the settlement of the crisis brokered by the Foreign Ministers of Germany , France and Poland - Frank-Walter Steinmeier , Laurent Fabius and Radosław Sikorski - on February 21, 2014 provided for the formation of a government of national unity with representatives of the Party of Regions. However, these were not given a place in the cabinet, which led to criticism. The awarding of important offices to members of the All-Ukrainian association "Swoboda" was particularly criticized.

Yatsenyuk's government has not been recognized by Russia or by some of the leaders of the pro-Russian protests in Ukraine . All other states that emerged from the Soviet Union recognize the government, at least implicitly. The United States , the European Union, and all Western countries recognize the government.

criticism

The unreserved support of the transitional government met with some criticism: Günter Verheugen criticized the blindness of European politicians for the internal political tensions between eastern and western Ukraine.

"Without need, the new Ukrainian government was immediately and wholeheartedly supported after Yanukovych was ousted, even though this government does not even enjoy the trust of the majority in its own country, is anti-Russian and it includes ethnic groups."

Russian Ambassador Vladimir Grinin said on March 7, 2014 that after the overthrow of President Viktor Yanukovych, a "government of national unity" should have been formed in Ukraine. In reality, however, it then happened “that a small, limited group imposed its will on everyone else, thereby humiliating the Russians, which of course we will not tolerate.” Egon Bahr partially agreed with Grinin: “If the whole thing is not so serious it would be weird. I don't know what the legal basis of the current government in Kiev is. "

See also

Individual evidence

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  3. ↑ The composition of the cabinet of ministers of Arseniy Yatsenyuk
  4. ^ Zeit Online : Ex-Ambassador Klimkin new Ukrainian Foreign Minister
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  8. ^ William Hague has been cavalier with the facts in his support for the Ukraine rebels - The Telegraph
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  10. ^ Moritz Gathmann: Ukraine: Jazenjuks Kamikaze Cabinet. Die Zeit , February 27, 2014, accessed on March 13, 2014 .
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  12. ↑ Cyrill Stieger: Propaganda War for the Ukraine: The fairy tale of fascism in Kiev. Neue Zürcher Zeitung , March 12, 2014, accessed on March 12, 2014 .
  13. ↑ Verheugen on EU Russia Policy: Why Helmut Schmidt is wrong. In: Spiegel Online . May 19, 2014, accessed June 9, 2018 .
  14. ↑ Egon Bahr once agrees with Russia's ambassador ( memento of March 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), Die Welt