The Groysman government was formed on 14 April 2016, led by

Volodymyr Groysman Volodymyr Borysovych Groysman (; born 20 January 1978) is a Ukrainian statesman, politician, and businessman. He served as the 16th Prime Minister of Ukraine from 14 April 2016, to 29 August 2019. From 2006 to 2014, he was the mayor of Vinny ...

. It was the third Ukrainian cabinet formed since the

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, following on from the

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and

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Yatsenyuk governments.

History

Formation

On 10 April 2016,

Arseniy Yatsenyuk Arseniy Petrovych Yatsenyuk (born 22 May 1974) is a Ukrainian politician, economist and lawyer who served two terms as Prime Minister of Ukraine – from 27 February 2014 to 27 November 2014 and from 27 November 2014 to 14 April 2016. He was t ...

announced that he would resign as

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and would ask parliament to fire him on 12 April 2016.Ukrainian PM Yatsenyuk resigns

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(10 April 2016)Ukraine Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk to resign

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(10 April 2016) On 25 March 2016, Parliamentary Speaker

had been nominated by coalition partner Petro Poroshenko Bloc to replace Yatsenyuk. 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.Ukraine: Lawmakers end session without new PM vote

(12 April 2016) On 14 April Groysman was confirmed by the

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(Ukraine's parliament) as Prime Minister. 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.

Parliamentary voting

Additional decisions

Composition

Under the

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the

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submits nominations to parliament for the post of

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and

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. When the Groysman Government was installed Pavlo Klimkin was reappointed as Foreign minister and

Stepan Poltorak Stepan Tymofiyovych Poltorak () is a Ukrainian general who served as the Minister of Defence of Ukraine from 14 October 2014 until 29 August 2019. Previously he was the commander of the Internal Troops of Ukraine and National Guard of Ukraine.

was reappointed as Minister of Defence. The post of

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is vacant since the Groysman Government was formed (on 14 April 2016). Naturalised

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Ulana Suprun was appointed

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Minister on 27 July 2016. On 11 July 2015, President

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had granted Suprun Ukrainian citizenship. After a conflict with Prime Minister Groysman the

on 7 June 2018 dismissed

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Oleksandr Danylyuk, the next day

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was appointed acting Finance Minister.Oksana Markarova appointed Ukraine's acting finance minister

(8 June 2018) On 22 November 2018, parliament appointed her as Finance Minister.Ukraine parliament appoints Markarova, Friz ministers

(22 November 2018) The same day

Iryna Friz Iryna Vasylivna Friz (, ; born 25 September 1974) is a Ukrainian politician who was Minister of the then newly created Ministry for Veterans Affairs in the Groysman government from November 2018 until August 2019. On 27 February 2018, parliament adopted an appeal to the Cabinet of Ministers on the creation of this Ministry for Veterans Affairs. Agriculture Minister Taras Kutovy was dismissed by parliament on 22 November 2018, on 7 December 2018 Maxim Martynyuk was appointed acting Minister of Agriculture. Assign new to. at. Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food

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(7 December 2018)

References

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