Yatsenyuk II cabinet

Government building of Ukraine in Kiev , seat of the Cabinet of Ministers since 1991 .

Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk 2014

On December 2, 2014, Yatsenyuk's second cabinet of ministers ( Ukrainian Другий уряд Арсенія Яценюка ) was confirmed by the Verkhovna Rada , the parliament of Ukraine , as the new government of Ukraine , after five of the parties that voted in the parliamentary elections in October 2014 in the new Parliament had been elected, had presented a coalition agreement on November 21.

Arsenij Yatsenjuk was re-elected Prime Minister of Ukraine on November 27, 2014 and can continue the rapprochement with the European Union that began in the previous term . He received 341 votes from MPs; only 226 votes were necessary for re-election.

The second ministerial Cabinet Yatsenyuk was on 14 April 2016 the Cabinet of Ministers Hrojsman replaced.

Coalition partner

The coalition partners in forming a government
logo	Political party
	Petro Poroshenko Block (BPP)
	Popular Front
	Oleh Lyashko's radical party
	All-Ukrainian "Fatherland" Association
	Self help

The Radical Party of Oleh Lyashko left in protest of a parliamentary vote on a constitutional amendment that would give the separatist regions more autonomy, on 1 September 2015, the government coalition. On September 15, 2015, the Verkhovna Rada accepted the resignation of the first Deputy Prime Minister Valery Voschtschewskyj of the Radical Party Oleh Lyashko with 234 MPs.

For further developments see: Government crisis 2016

prehistory

After several economic laws were rejected in parliament, including one that would have allowed foreign investors to participate in Ukraine's gas transport system, Yatsenyuk resigned in July 2014. The Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko , who was elected in May 2014 , then called on Yatsenjuk to remain in office. In a vote on July 31, 2014, a large majority of MPs rejected his resignation and so Yatsenyuk remained in office.

On August 25, 2014, President Petro Poroshenko prematurely dissolved parliament by decree to allow early elections as part of his peace plan. When he took office in June 2014, he had already announced that he would seek new parliamentary elections. The parliamentary elections took place on October 26, 2014, when the Prime Minister's Popular Front party received 76 seats and the President's party, the Petro Poroshenko Bloc, 127 seats.

Innovations

With the Ministry of Information, a new ministry was established to counter Russian propaganda.

Three former foreigners who were granted Ukrainian citizenship on short notice are represented in the new government. It is the new Finance Minister Natalija Jaresko , who comes from the USA , also the Georgian Oleksandr Kwitashvili , who Yatsenyuk describes as a “radical reformer” , who takes over the Ministry of Health, and the Lithuanian Minister of Economic Affairs Aivaras Abromavičius . The idea of bringing ministers from abroad came from the Ukrainian President Poroshenko, since ministers from abroad do not maintain corrupt ties in Ukraine and curb the influence of the old, sluggish elites.

Government crisis 2016

At the beginning of February 2016, Minister of Economic Affairs Aivaras Abromavičius, known as a reformer, resigned due to the increasing pressure from Ihor Kononenko , the first deputy chairman of the Bloc Petro Poroshenko , whom Abromavičius sees as the driving force behind corruption intrigues, as well as the sluggish fight against corruption due to his view by the government, back. Several ambassadors from major donor countries (USA, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland, Canada, France, Italy, Lithuania and Great Britain) expressed their “deep disappointment” with the resignation of the minister in an open letter.

No confidence in the government on February 16, 2016
Political party	Yes	On the other hand	abstention	Not matched	Absent	total
Coalition partner	137	1	10	14th	100	262
Block Petro Poroshenko	97	0	10	10	19th	136
Popular Front	0	1	0	2	78	81
Self help	25th	0	0	1	0	26th
Fatherland	15th	0	0	1	3	19th
Oleh Lyashko's radical party	15th	0	0	0	6th	21st
Opposition bloc	8th	1	0	1	33	43
Group "Volkswille"	6th	0	0	1	13	20th
Party rebirth group	0	0	0	11	12	23
Non-attached	28	0	2	1	20th	51
total	194	2	12	28	184	420

On February 16, 2016, President Poroshenko then demanded the resignation of Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin and a reshuffle of the cabinet of Prime Minister Yatsenyuk, who has long been accused of being close to oligarchs and delaying reforms.

On the evening of the same day, however, Yatsenyuk survived a vote of no confidence in the Verkhovna Rada, as only 194 instead of the necessary 226 deputies voted for his removal. (see adjacent table)

The All-Ukrainian Union "Fatherland" of Yulia Tymoshenko accused Yatsenyuk vote-buying in the no-confidence vote against and retired next day from the government back the liberal "self-help" ( Samopomitsch ) followed with accusations of nepotism and corruption against the leadership to Yatsenyuk, the February 18. The governor of Odessa Oblast and former President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili also spoke of oligarchs buying votes in favor of Yatsenyuk.

This means that the Yatsenyuk government does not currently have a parliamentary majority. If it cannot form a new majority coalition within 30 days, President Poroshenko could dissolve parliament and call new elections. According to the Ukrainian constitution, another vote of no confidence, with which Yatsenjuk could be removed, will only be possible in six months.

The Radical Party of Oleh Lyashko has meanwhile agreed to hold talks about renewed participation in the government. Since the government had only 217 seats after February 18, but 226 seats would be required for a majority in parliament, the Radical Party with 21 members could help it gain a majority again.

During a visit to Kiev on February 23, the German and French Foreign Ministers Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Jean-Marc Ayrault called on the country's politicians to "refrain from political trench warfare and focus on resolutely implementing the reform agenda." Steinmeier also said "the fight against corruption must be resolutely waged", since the payments from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) would only be maintained for a stable Ukraine.

On April 14, 2016, Volodymyr Hroysman was elected Prime Minister in the Verkhovna Rada with 257 votes, and Yatsenyuk's resignation was confirmed with the same vote.

Composition of the Cabinet

Yatsenyuk's second cabinet
Portfolio	minister	Party affiliation	Term of office
Prime Minister	Arseniy Yatsenyuk	Popular Front	December 2, 2014 -
First Vice Prime Minister (vacant since September 15, 2015)	Valery Voshchevskyi	Radical Party	December 2, 2014 - September 15, 2015
Interior minister	Arsen Avakov	Popular Front	December 2, 2014 -
Vice Prime Minister , Minister for Culture	Vyacheslav Kyrylenko	Popular Front	December 2, 2014 -
Minister in the Cabinet of Ministers	Hanna Onyshchenko	Popular Front	December 2, 2014 -
Minister of Justice	Pavlo Petrenko	Popular Front	December 2, 2014 -
Vice Prime Minister , Minister for Regional Development, Construction and Municipal Housing	Hennadij Subko	BPP	December 2, 2014 -
Foreign minister	Pavlo Klimkin	BPP	December 2, 2014 -
Finance minister	Natalija Jaresko	BPP	December 2, 2014 -
Defense Minister	Stepan Poltorak	BPP	December 2, 2014 -
Minister for Economic Development and Trade	Aivaras Abromavičius	BPP	December 2, 2014 - February 3, 2016
Minister for Energy and Coal Industry	Volodymyr Demchyshyn	BPP	December 2, 2014 -
Minister for Infrastructure	Andrij Pywowarskyj	BPP	December 2, 2014 -
Minister for Information Policy	Jurij Stez	BPP	December 2, 2014 -
Minister for Education and Science	Serhiy Kwit	BPP	December 2, 2014 -
Minister for Health Protection	Oleksandr Kwitashvili	BPP	December 2, 2014 -
Minister for Social Policy	Pavlo Rosenko	BPP	December 2, 2014 -
Minister for Ecology and Natural Resources	Ihor Shevchenko	Fatherland	December 2, 2014 - July 2, 2015
	Serhiy Kurykin	/	provisional August 12, 2015 - January 27, 2016
	Hanna Wronska	/	provisional February 5, 2016 -
Minister for Youth and Sport	Ihor Zhdanov	Fatherland	December 2, 2014 -
Minister for Agricultural Policy and Food	Oleksiy Pavlenko	Self-help, independent since February 2, 2016	December 2, 2014 -

Other important offices

Portfolio	Public officials	Party affiliation	comment
Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada Parliament	Volodymyr Hroysman	BPP	Member of the National Security and Defense Council
Head of Presidential Administration	Borys Loschkin	-	Member of the National Security and Defense Council
Attorney General	Vitaly Jarema	Fatherland	until February 2015; Member of the National Security and Defense Council
Attorney General	Viktor Schokin	-	February 10, 2015 to April 3, 2016; Member of the National Security and Defense Council
Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council	Oleksandr Turchynov	Popular Front	Member of the National Security and Defense Council
President of the National Bank	Valeria Hontareva	-	come over. Member of the National Security and Defense Council
Head of the domestic intelligence service SBU	Valentyn Nalyvaychenko	-	until June 18, 2015; Member of the National Security and Defense Council
Head of the domestic intelligence service SBU	Wassyl Hryzak	-	since July 2015; Member of the National Security and Defense Council
Chairman of the Central Electoral Commission of Ukraine	Mychajlo Ochendowskyj	-