Yekhanurov Government | |
---|---|
11th Cabinet of Ukraine (since 1990) | |
Lesser Coat of Arms of Ukraine.svg | |
Date formed | September 22, 2005 |
Date dissolved | January 10, 2006 |
People and organisations | |
Head of state | Viktor Yushchenko |
Head of government | Yuriy Yekhanurov |
Deputy head of government | Stanislav Stashevsky |
No. of ministers | 23 |
Member party | NUNS Socialist Party of Ukraine |
Opposition party | Communist Party of Ukraine |
Opposition leader | Petro Symonenko |
History | |
Legislature term(s) | 5 years |
Predecessor | First Tymoshenko government |
Successor | Second Yanukovych government |
The first Yekhanurov Government was appointed after the first Tymoshenko Government was sacked amid resignations and corruption claims. [1] Twelve days later the Ukrainian Parliament rejecting Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko choice of Yuri Yekhanurov for Prime Minister. Yekhanurov was three votes short of the 226 needed for approval with three out of 52 deputies from the Regions faction voting for Yekhanurov. [2] On September 22, 2005 the Ukrainian parliament did approved Yekhanurov appointment with 289 votes. This time all the Parliamentarians of the Party of Regions faction of losing presidential candidate (in 2004) Viktor Yanukovych backed the appointment. [3] This shortly after a "Memorandum Of Understanding Between The Authorities And The Opposition" was signed by Yekhanurov, Yushchenko and Yanukovych. [4] [5] [6]
Yekhanurov government lost a vote of no confidence on January 10, 2006 [7] but stayed in power until the parliamentary election two months later.
Faction [8] | Number of deputies | For | Against | Abstained | Didn't vote | Absent |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Communists | 56 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 56 |
Party of Regions of Ukraine | 50 | 50 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
People's Party | 47 | 45 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
Our Ukraine | 45 | 44 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc | 41 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 27 | 7 |
Unaffiliated | 28 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
Socialist Party of Ukraine | 25 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Ukrainian People's Party | 23 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Forward, Ukraine! | 20 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Social Democratic Party of Ukraine (united) | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 5 |
One Ukraine | 16 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 |
Party of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of Ukraine | 15 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Reforms and Order Party | 15 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 |
People's Movement of Ukraine | 15 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Faction of PDP and Labour Ukraine | 13 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
All factions | 429 | 289 | 0 | 1 | 49 | 90 |
Party key | Our Ukraine | |
---|---|---|
Socialist Party of Ukraine |
Office | Name minister | Party | Appointment |
---|---|---|---|
Prime Minister | Yuriy Yekhanurov | 8 September / 22 September (approved) | |
First Vice Prime Minister | Stanislav Stashevsky | 28 September | |
First Vice Prime Minister — Industry | Anatoliy Kinakh (acting) | 8 September – 27 September | |
Vice Prime Minister (on Humanitarian and Social issues) | Viacheslav Kyrylenko | 28 September | |
Vice Prime Minister (on Agro-Industrial Complex) | Yuriy Melnyk | 5 October | |
Vice Prime Minister (on Administrative-Territorial reform) | Roman Bezsmertnyi | 8 September / 28 September – 27 November | |
Minister of Internal Affairs | Yuriy Lutsenko | 8 September / 28 September | |
Minister of Foreign Affairs | Borys Tarasyuk | 8 September / 28 September | |
Minister of Coal Industry | Viktor Topolov | 8 September / 27 September | |
Minister of Culture and Tourism | Ihor Likhovy | 5 October | |
Oksana Bilozir (acting) | 8 September – 28 September | ||
Minister of Defense | Anatoliy Hrytsenko | 8 September / 30 September | |
Minister of Economics | Arseniy Yatseniuk | 28 September | |
Serhiy Teryokhin (acting) | 8 September – 27 September | ||
Minister of Education and Science | Stanislav Nikolaenko | 8 September / 27 September | |
Minister of Fuel and Energy | Ivan Plachkov | 8 September / 27 September | |
Minister of Labor and Social Policy | Ivan Sakhan | 27 September | |
Vyacheslav Kyrylenko (acting) | 8 September – 27 September | ||
Minister of Construction, Architecture and Residential-Communal Farming | Pavlo Kachur | 28 September | |
Minister of Health Care | Yuriy Polyachenko | 14 October | |
Mykola Polishchuk (acting) | 8 September – 28 September | ||
Minister of Agro-Industrial Complex issues | Oleksandr Baranivsky | 8 September / 28 September | |
Minister of Industrial Policy | Volodymyr Shandra | 8 September / 28 September | |
Minister of Environmental Protection issues | Pavlo Ihnatenko | 8 September / 28 September | |
Minister of Transport and Communications | Viktor Bondar | 28 September | |
Yevhen Chervonenko (acting) | 8 September – 27 September | ||
Minister of Emergency Situation issues | Viktor Baloha | 27 September | |
David Zhvaniya (acting) | 8 September – 27 September | ||
Minister of Family, Youth and Sport | Yuriy Pavlenko | 8 September / 28 September | |
Minister of Finance | Viktor Pynzenyk | 8 September / 28 September | |
Minister of Justice | Serhiy Holovatyi | 6 October | |
Roman Zvarych (acting) | 8 September – 28 September | ||
Minister of the Cabinet of Ministers | Bohdan Butsa | 27 September | |
Petro Krupko (acting) | 8 September – 27 September |
Viktor Fedorovych Yanukovych is a former politician who served as the fourth president of Ukraine from 2010 until he was removed from office in the Revolution of Dignity in 2014, after months of protests against his presidency. From 2006 to 2007 he was the prime minister of Ukraine; he also served in this post from November 2002 to January 2005, with a short interruption in December 2004. He currently lives in exile in Russia, where he has lived since his removal from office in 2014.
Viktor Andriyovych Yushchenko is a Ukrainian politician who was the third president of Ukraine from 23 January 2005 to 25 February 2010. He aimed to orient Ukraine towards the West, towards the European Union and NATO.
Presidential elections were held in Ukraine on 31 October, 21 November and 26 December 2004. The election was the fourth presidential election to take place in Ukraine following independence from the Soviet Union. The last stages of the election were contested between the opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko and incumbent Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych from the Party of Regions. It was later determined by the Ukrainian Supreme Court that the election was plagued by widespread falsification of the results in favour of Yanukovych.
The Orange Revolution was a series of protests and political events that took place in Ukraine from late November 2004 to January 2005, in the immediate aftermath of the run-off vote of the 2004 Ukrainian presidential election, which was claimed to be marred by massive corruption, voter intimidation and electoral fraud. Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital, was the focal point of the movement's campaign of civil resistance, with thousands of protesters demonstrating daily. Nationwide, the revolution was highlighted by a series of acts of civil disobedience, sit-ins, and general strikes organized by the opposition movement.
Anatoliy Kyrylovych Kinakh is a Ukrainian politician and honorary professor at the Mykolaiv Government Humanitarian University. Kinakh is a former People's Deputy of Ukraine. Kinakh currently serves as the leader of Party of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of Ukraine.
Below is the timeline of events that followed the runoff presidential election held in Ukraine on 21 November 2004 that sparked off the "Orange Revolution".
Yulia Volodymyrivna Tymoshenko is a Ukrainian politician, people's Deputy of Ukraine, Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine for the fuel and energy complex (1999–2001), Prime Minister of Ukraine from February to September 2005 and from December 2007 to March 2010. She was the first and so far the only woman to serve as prime minister of Ukraine. She has the degree of Candidate of Economic Sciences.
The prime minister of Ukraine is the head of government of Ukraine. The prime minister presides over the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, which is the highest body of the executive branch of the Ukrainian government. The position replaced the Soviet post of chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR, which was established on March 25, 1946.
The Party of Regions was a pro-Russian political party in Ukraine formed in late 1997 that then grew to be the biggest party of Ukraine between 2006 and 2014.
Yuriy Ivanovych Yekhanurov is a Ukrainian politician who was Prime Minister of Ukraine from 2005 to 2006 and Minister of Defense from 2007 to 2009.
Anatoliy Stepanovych Hrytsenko is a Ukrainian politician, independent member of the current Ukrainian parliament, former Minister of Defence, member of the Our Ukraine political party and leader of the Civil Position party.
The 2006 Parliamentary crisis in Ukraine started in March 2006 as a result of inconclusive parliamentary elections, and ended on 3 August 2006 with Viktor Yanukovych being chosen as a Prime Minister to replace Yuriy Yekhanurov, who resigned right after the parliamentary elections.
Presidential elections were held in Ukraine on 17 January 2010. As no candidate received a majority of the vote, a run-off election was held between Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and opposition leader Viktor Yanukovych on 7 February.
Arseniy Petrovych Yatsenyuk is a Ukrainian politician, economist and lawyer who served as Prime Minister of Ukraine twice – from 27 February 2014 to 27 November 2014 and from 27 November 2014 to 14 April 2016.
The 2008 Ukrainian political crisis started after President Viktor Yushchenko's Our Ukraine–People's Self-Defense Bloc (NU-NS) withdrew from the governing coalition following a vote on a bill to limit the President's powers in which the Prime Minister's Bloc Yulia Tymoshenko (BYuT) voted with the opposition Party of Regions. The bill would have required the consent of the Prime Minister for the appointment and dismissal of the Prosecutor General by the President, given the government power to appoint local heads of government if the President rejects the candidates, stripped from the President the right to reject a candidate for Prime Minister, dismiss the Defense, Interior and Foreign Ministers, and appoint a head of the State Intelligence Service. President Yushchenko stated that a clear position on the 2008 Russo-Georgian War was one of the conditions under which return to talks in the Parliament was possible, as well as the repeal of all the constitutional laws adopted after 3 September. Yushchenko claimed that a "de-facto coalition" was formed with 'no other aims but to conduct coup d'état and usurp power in the country'. Tymoshenko stated that the real intentions behind the President's party in 'declaring war on her' was to ensure his victory in the next presidential election, although she still called for a reformation of the coalition between the two parties. She also reiterated her position on the Georgian conflict, claiming to be neutral and more in line with the European Union.
The first Tymoshenko Government was appointed on February 4, 2005 by 373 Parliamentarians of the Verkhovna Rada. It was supported opposition factions' Parliamentarians, including three Communists, 18 Social Democratic Party of Ukraine (united) members, 46 Regions faction members.
The second Tymoshenko Government was appointed on 18 December 2007 as a coalition between Bloc of Yulia Tymoshenko (BYuT) and Our Ukraine-People's Self-Defense Bloc (OU-PSD), OU-PSD is the party of then-President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko, following the 2007 Ukrainian parliamentary election. The government program was named: "Ukrainian breakthrough: for people, not for politicians".
Viktor Vasylyovych Bondar is a Ukrainian politician, a member of Ukrainian parliament of the 7th and 8th convocations, the Minister of Transport and Communication of Ukraine (2005–2006), and the Head of Dnipropetrovsk Regional State Administration (2007–2010).
Oleksandr Yuriyovych Tretiakov is a Ukrainian politician and statesman, People's Deputy of Ukraine of the 4th, 5th, 6th, and 8th convocations. Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on veterans, combatants, participants in the anti-terrorist operation and people with disabilities. Since June 2015 is a deputy head of the parliamentary faction of the political party Petro Poroshenko Bloc. Head of the Cabinet of the President of Ukraine (2005). Tretyakov lost his seat in the Rada in the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary elections.
The second Azarov government was the government of Ukraine from 24 December 2012 to 28 January 2014. It was dissolved amidst the Euromaidan protests. The ministers (except Prime Minister Mykola Azarov who was replaced by Deputy Prime Minister Serhiy Arbuzov, continued briefly as a caretaker government. On 27 February 2014 Ukraine's parliament approved a resolution to formally dismiss the government.