Tymoshenko Forms New Government

Yesterday in an oral vote 226 MPs, or the minimum required to form a simply majority, voted in favor of President Viktor Yushenko’s appointment of Yulia Tymoshenko as Prime Minister. The new Prime Minister then spent most of the day appointing the new government. Nick Piazza: The new government has a lot of old faces from the government Tymoshenko put together in 2005. Some key names returning to the government include Finance Minister Viktor Pynzenyk, a proponent of energy and land reform, Interior Minister Yuri Lutsenko, who was instrumental in implementing measures that helped lower corruption in law enforcement agencies, Grygoriy Nemyria, a key player in setting Tymoshenko’s foreign policy goals and Yuri Prodan, a reform-minded energy sector insider and long-time Tymoshenko ally. Tymoshenko said she expects the new government to present the new 2008 budget to the Rada before adjourning for the winter holidays.

Name

Postition

Party

Yulia Tymoshenko

Prime Minister

Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc

Olexander Turchynov

Deputy Prime Minister

Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc

Grygoriy Nemyria

Deputy Prime Minister

Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc

Ivan Vasyunyk

Deputy Prime Minister

Our Ukraine

Ivan Vakarchuk

Minister of Education

Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc

Yosyp Vinskiy

Minister of Transportation

Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc

Vasyl Vovkun

Minister of Tourism

Our Ukraine

Bogdan Danylyshyn

Economic Minister

Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc

Ludmyla Denysova

Labor Minister

Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc

Yuri Yekhanurov

Defense Minister

President

Petro Krupko

Health Minister

Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc

Vasyl Kuybida

Cabinet of Ministers Liaison

Our Ukraine

Oleksiy Kucherenko

Household & Utilities Infrastructure Minister

Our Ukraine

Yuri Lutsenko

Interior Minister

Our Ukraine

Yuri Melnyk

Agrarian Policy Minister

Our Ukraine

Volodymyr Novytskiy

Industrial Policy

N/A

Mykola Onischuk

Minister of Justice

Our Ukraine

Volodymyr Ogryzko

Foreign Minister

President

Yuri Pavlenko

Minister of Family, Sports & Youth

Our Ukraine

Viktor Pynzenyk

Finance Minister

Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc

Viktor Poltavets

Coal Minister

N/A

Yuri Prodan

Fuel & Energy Minister

Our Ukraine

Georgiy Filipchuk

Environmental Protection Ministry

Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc

Volodymyr Shandra

Emergency Situations Ministry

President