Groysman Government

Groysman Government
19th Cabinet of Ukraine (since 1990)
Date formed	14 April 2016[1]
Date dissolved	29 August 2019
People and organisations
Head of state	Petro Poroshenko Volodymyr Zelensky
Head of government	Volodymyr Groysman
Deputy head of government	Stepan Kubiv Volodymyr Kistion Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze Pavlo Rozenko Vyacheslav Kyrylenko Hennadiy Zubko
No. of ministers	24
Member parties	Petro Poroshenko Bloc People's Front
Status in legislature	Coalition
Opposition parties	Opposition Bloc Batkivshchyna Self Reliance Radical Party
Opposition leaders	Yuriy Boyko Yulia Tymoshenko, Andriy Sadovyi^[citation needed] Oleh Lyashko
History
Predecessor	Second Yatsenyuk government
Successor	Honcharuk government

The Groysman government was formed on 14 April 2016, led by Volodymyr Groysman.^[2][3] It was the third Ukrainian cabinet formed since the 2014 Ukrainian revolution, following on from the first and second Yatsenyuk governments.

History

Formation

See also: Second Yatsenyuk government § Fall

On 10 April 2016, Arseniy Yatsenyuk announced that he would resign as Prime Minister and would ask parliament to fire him on 12 April 2016.^[4] On 25 March 2016, Parliamentary Speaker Volodymyr Groysman had been nominated by coalition partner Petro Poroshenko Bloc to replace Yatsenyuk.^[4][5] On 12 April parliament did not hold a vote on Yatsenyuk's resignation, because (Yatsenyuk's party) People's Front and Petro Poroshenko Bloc could not agree on the forming of a new government.^[6] On 14 April Groysman was confirmed by the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine's parliament) as Prime Minister.^[7]

As Petro Poroshenko Bloc and People's Front together lacked a parliamentary majority (and a couple of both parties' parliamentarians voted "against" the Groysman government) the government creation became possible because almost all MP's of Revival and People's Will voted for the establishment of the coalition.^[8]

Parliamentary voting

Faction	Number of members	Yes	No	Abstained	Did not vote	Absent
Petro Poroshenko Bloc	146	131	4	3	1	7
People's Front	81	75	0	2	1	3
Opposition Bloc	43	0	34	0	3	6
Non-affiliated	42	13	8	8	5	8
Self Reliance	26	0	2	22	0	2
Revival	23	23	0	0	0	0
Radical Party	21	1	1	0	19	0
People's Will	19	16	0	0	2	1
Fatherland	19	0	1	13	2	3
All factions	420	259	50	48	33	30

Additional decisions

Proposals	Yes	No	Abstained	Did not vote	Total
The composition of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine[9]	240	48	39	20	367

Composition

Under the Constitution of Ukraine the Ukrainian President submits nominations to parliament for the post of Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister of Defense. When the Groysman Government was installed Pavlo Klimkin was reappointed as Foreign minister and Stepan Poltorak was reappointed as Minister of Defence.^[10]

The post of Minister of Health is vacant since the Groysman Government was formed (on 14 April 2016).^[10] Naturalised Ukrainian American Ulana Suprun was appointed acting Minister on 27 July 2016.^[11] On 11 July 2015, President Petro Poroshenko had granted Suprun Ukrainian citizenship.^[12]

After a conflict with Prime Minister Groysman the Verkhovna Rada on 7 June 2018 dismissed Finance Minister Oleksandr Danylyuk, the next day Oksana Markarova was appointed acting Finance Minister.^[13] On 22 November 2018, parliament appointed her as Finance Minister.^[14] The same day Iryna Friz was appointed to the new post of Minister of Veterans Affairs.^[14] On 27 February 2018, parliament adopted an appeal to the Cabinet of Ministers on the creation of this Ministry for Veterans Affairs.^[14]

Agriculture Minister Taras Kutovy was dismissed by parliament on 22 November 2018, on 7 December 2018 Maxim Martynyuk was appointed acting Minister of Agriculture.^[15](in Ukrainian)

Nominating party key		Petro Poroshenko Bloc "Solidarity"
		People's Front
Presidential nominations		President Petro Poroshenko

Logo	Office	Incumbent[10][8]
	Prime Minister		Volodymyr Groysman
	First Vice Prime Minister		Stepan Kubiv
	Minister of Economic Development and Trade
	Vice Prime Minister (European and EuroAtlantic integration)		Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze
	Vice Prime Minister		Hennadiy Zubko
	Minister of Regional Development
	Vice Prime Minister (humanitarian policy)		Vyacheslav Kyrylenko
	Vice Prime Minister (infrastructure, fuel/energy complex, ecology)[16]		Volodymyr Kistion
	Vice Prime Minister		Pavlo Rozenko
	Minister of Internal Affairs		Arsen Avakov
	Minister of Foreign Affairs		Pavlo Klimkin
	Minister of Finance		Oleksandr Danylyuk Oksana Markarova[14]
	Minister of Defence		Stepan Poltorak
	Minister of Social Policy		Andriy Reva
	Minister of Temporarily Occupied Territories and IDPs		Vadym Chernysh
	Minister of Justice		Pavlo Petrenko
	Minister of Health		Oleksandra Pavlenko (acting) Viktor Shafransky (acting) Ulana Suprun (acting)[11]
	Minister of Education and Science		Liliya Hrynevych
	Ministry of Fuel and Energy		Ihor Nasalyk
	Minister of Infrastructure		Volodymyr Omelyan
	Minister of Information Policy		Yuriy Stets
	Minister of Agriculture		Taras Kutovy Maxim Martynyuk (acting)[15]
	Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources of Ukraine		Ostap Semerak
	Minister of Culture		Yevhen Nyshchuk
	Minister of Veterans Affairs		Iryna Friz[14]
	Minister of Youth and Sports		Ihor Zhdanov
	Minister of the Cabinet of Ministers		Oleksandr Sayenko

References

1. "Ukraine MPS approve Volodymyr Groysman as new PM". BBC News. 14 April 2016.
2. "Volodymyr Hroisman is new Ukraine Prime Minister". 14 April 2016.
3. "Ukraine parliament approves Volodymyr Groysman as new PM". The Guardian. 14 April 2016.
4. Ukrainian PM Yatsenyuk resigns, UNIAN (10 April 2016)
   Ukraine Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk to resign, BBC News (10 April 2016)
5. Ukraine’s president settles on a PM candidate, Politico Europe (25 March 2016)
6. Ukraine: Lawmakers end session without new PM vote, BBC News (12 April 2016)
7. "UNIAN: News of Ukraine this year - the last days in Ukraine".
8. (in Ukrainian) Spring transplantation: Prime Groisman and without a coalition Cabinet, Ukrayinska Pravda (14 April 2016)
9. Individual voting Archived 19 April 2016 at the Wayback Machine. Verkhovna Rada. 14 April 2016
10. New Cabinet formed in Ukraine, UNIAN (14 April 2016)
    Week’s balance: PM Groysman, Rada’s sabotage, and disappointing IMF forecast, UNIAN (18 April 2016)
11. (in Ukrainian) The government appointed Acting Minister of Health, Ukrayinska Pravda (27 July 2016)
12. President has granted Passports of Ukrainian Citizens to Juliana and Marco Suprun: Your efforts saved thousands of lives, president.gov.ua (11 July 2016)
13. Oksana Markarova appointed Ukraine's acting finance minister, UNIAN (8 June 2018)
14. Ukraine parliament appoints Markarova, Friz ministers, UNIAN (22 November 2018)
15. (in Ukrainian) Assign new to. at. Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food, Ukrayinska Pravda (7 December 2018)
16. Гройсман переконує, що Кістіон отримав посаду не "за красиві очі" (Groysman assures that Kistion received his post not "for pretty eyes"). Ukrayinska Pravda. 20 April 2016