Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine

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Coat of arms of the Cabinet of Ministers
position government
Consist since 1991
Headquarters UkraineUkraine Kiev
Prime Minister Denys Schmyhal
Website Cabinet of Ministers web portal
Government building of Ukraine
Acting head of government : Prime Minister Denys Schmyhal

Since Ukraine's independence in 1991, the government of Ukraine has been administered by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine ( Ukrainian Кабінет Міністрів України , Cabinet Ministriv Ukrajiny , “Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine”), the highest body of the executive branch of Ukraine.

The Cabinet of Ministers has had its seat in the government building of Ukraine in the Ukrainian capital Kiev since 1991, succeeding the Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR . The Prime Minister of the current cabinet is Denys Schmyhal .

composition

The cabinet consists of the Prime Minister (Ukrainian: Прем'єр-міністр України / Prem'er Ministr Ukrajiny , "Prime Minister of Ukraine"), the First Vice Prime Minister, three other Vice Prime Ministers and the Ministers .

The Prime Minister is appointed by the President of Ukraine with the consent of the Verkhovna Rada , Parliament of Ukraine, and the remaining cabinet members are appointed by the President on the proposal of the Prime Minister. The term of office of the cabinet is linked to the term of office of the Prime Minister. The Verkhovna Rada can cast a no-confidence vote against the prime minister, with the result that he and the entire cabinet must be dismissed from office by the state president. Due to its bilateral appointment and dismissal, the Cabinet of Ministers is just as dependent on majorities in the Verkhovna Rada for its work as it is on the support of the President.

Recent history

Most recently, the government under Prime Minister Mykola Azarov of the Party of Regions, which came to power in the 2012 parliamentary elections with massive violations in favor of the Party of Regions, was dependent on the support of the Communist Party and independent MPs.

Prime Minister Mykola Azarov was dismissed from the Verkhovna Rada by President Viktor Yanukovych after his resignation on January 28, 2014 as a result of the Euromaidan . With the government business up to the appointment of a new government, the previous First Vice-Prime Minister Serhiy Arbusov , also from the Party of Regions, was provisionally appointed.

On February 22, 2014 the Verkhovna Rada decided to dismiss Arbusov as acting prime minister and to transfer the leadership of the cabinet of ministers to the speaker of the Verkhovna Rada, Oleksandr Turchynov ( Fatherland Party ) until a new prime minister was elected .

The interim government of Yatsenyuk was in office from February 27, 2014 to December 2, 2014, and parliament rejected its proposed resignation on July 24, 2014. From December 2, 2014, the second Yatsenyuk cabinet , a coalition government that had formed after the parliamentary elections at the end of October , was in office. Arseniy Yatsenyuk was confirmed as Prime Minister. After a government crisis that began in February 2016 and resulted in the loss of the parliamentary majority in the Yatsenyuk government, Arseniy Yatsenyuk announced his resignation as prime minister on April 10, which was confirmed by the Verkhovna Rada on April 14, 2016. On the same day, Volodymyr Hroysman was elected as his successor.

After the presidential election on April 21, 2019, which the political newcomer Volodymyr Zelenskyi won, he dissolved parliament during his inaugural speech in the Verkhovna Rada on May 20, 2019, which led to early elections on July 21, 2019, which led to the party of President sluha narodu ( servants of the people won) with absolute majority. At the first session of the newly elected parliament on August 29, 2019, the ministers proposed by Zelenskyi were confirmed by parliamentary elections. The previous cabinet consisted of 25 ministers. The Verkhovna Rada appointed 17 people to the new government. The new cabinet consisted of 15 instead of 19 ministries.

Current cabinet

The Schmyhal cabinet has been in office since March 4, 2020 .

Web links

Commons : Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Law on the Cabinet of Ministers on the official website of the Verkhovna Rada ; Retrieved December 6, 2014.
  2. ↑ OSCE report: Observers denounce violations in Ukraine elections. Spiegel Online , October 29, 2012, accessed April 21, 2014 .
  3. ↑ Mykola Azarov resigns from the position of the Prime Minister of Ukraine , from the website of the Cabinet of Ministers, accessed on March 23, 2014
  4. ↑ Mykola Azarov introduces Serhiy Arbuzov as acting Prime Minister , on the website of the Cabinet of Ministers, accessed on March 23, 2014
  5. ↑ Plenary Meeting of the Fourth Session of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of the Seventh Convocation on Saturday, February 22, 2014 Press release on the Verkhovna Rada website, accessed on March 23, 2014
  6. ^ English version: Prime Minister of Ukraine and composition of Government appointed , on the website of the Cabinet of Ministers, accessed on March 23, 2014
  7. ↑ Government resigns as a whole ; on n24 from July 24, 2014
  8. ↑ AFP: Anti-Terrorist Operation: Ukraine introduces 1.5 percent war tax on income. In: Zeit Online. July 31, 2014, accessed December 8, 2014 .
  9. ^ Second Yatsenjuk cabinet on Ukraine News of December 2, 2014
  10. ↑ Ukraine: Hrojsman as head of government fix in ORF.at from April 14, 2016; accessed on April 14, 20
  11. ↑ New cabinet on pravda.com.ua ; accessed on August 30, 2019 (Ukrainian)