First Yatsenyuk government

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First Yatsenyuk government
17th Cabinet of Ukraine (since 1990)
Yatsenyuk government.jpg
Date formed27 February 2014
Date dissolved27 November 2014
People and organisations
Head of state Oleksandr Turchynov (acting)
Petro Poroshenko
Head of government Arseniy Yatsenyuk
Deputy head of government Oleksandr Sych
Volodymyr Groysman
No. of ministers20
Member party Batkivshchyna
Svoboda
Status in legislature Coalition
Opposition party Party of Regions
Communist Party of Ukraine
Opposition leader Oleksandr Yefremov
Petro Symonenko
History
Predecessor Second Azarov government
Successor Second Yatsenyuk government

The first government headed by Arseniy Yatsenyuk was created in Ukraine on 27 February 2014 in the aftermath of the Revolution of Dignity. [1] The cabinet was formed as a coalition of the Batkivschyna, UDAR and Svoboda political parties, the Economic Development and Sovereign European Ukraine parliamentary factions, and a number of unaffiliated MPs. [1] On 24 July 2014, UDAR, Svoboda and 19 independent MPs exited the coalition to pave the way for the early parliamentary elections of late October 2014. [1] Prime Minister Yatsenyuk announced his resignation the same day, [2] but the Verkhovna Rada declined his resignation on 31 July 2014. [3]

Contents

After the 26 October 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election, the second Yatsenyuk government was formed.

Creation

Euromaidan leaders Vitali Klitschko, Petro Poroshenko (second left) and Arseniy Yatsenyuk (right) with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, 30 January 2014 ConsMunich 50th Munich Security Conference 2014 (12252052974).jpg
Euromaidan leaders Vitali Klitschko, Petro Poroshenko (second left) and Arseniy Yatsenyuk (right) with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, 30 January 2014

The Yatsenyuk government took office in the wake of the anti-government Euromaidan protests that began in 2013 and culminated in the 22 February 2014 dismissal of President Viktor Yanukovych. [4] The government was first presented at Kyiv's main Euromaidan protest camp at Maidan Nezalezhnosti on 26 February 2014. [5] The government was then voted on by the Verkhovna Rada on 27 February 2014. [6] [7] There were no government posts for the UDAR party, led by one of the Euromaidan leaders, Vitali Klitschko. [8] [9] UDAR declined offers to participate in the new government. [10]

On its first day 250 MPs joined the coalition, including Batkivshchyna, UDAR, Svoboda, Economic Development and Sovereign European Ukraine. [11]

Parliamentary voting

371 members of parliament voted to elect Arseniy Yatsenyuk as Prime Minister of Ukraine, only two votes short of the record-high 373 votes won by Yulia Tymoshenko in 2005. [12]

FactionNumber of membersYesNoAbstainedDid not voteAbsent
Party of Regions 1239410820
Batkivshchyna – United Opposition 88850003
UDAR 42400002
Svoboda 36360000
Communist Party of Ukraine 32000320
Not affiliated59510224
Sovereign European Ukraine (group)37340012
Economic Development (group)32310001
All factions450371124333

Additional decisions

ProposalsYesNoAbstainedDid not voteTotal
The composition of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine [13] 3311243417
Appointment of Deshchytsia as acting Foreign Affairs Minister [14] 3220086408
Appointment of Tenyukh the acting Defense Minister [15] 3260082408
Appointment of Klimkin as Foreign Affairs Minister [16] 3351075411
Resignation of Yatsenyuk as Prime Minister [17] 161092184311

Changes in composition

Offices

On 1 March 2014, the Ministry of Revenues and Duties was liquidated. [18] Its agencies were transferred to the Ministry of Finance. On 23 March 2014, the Ministry of Industrial Policy was merged with the Ministry of Economy and Trade.

Ministers

On 19 June 2014, First Vice Prime Minister Vitaly Yarema was appointed General Prosecutor of Ukraine. [16] The same day, Pavlo Klimkin was appointed as Ukrainian foreign minister, replacing Andrii Deshchytsia. [19]

On 2 September 2014, the Verkhovna Rada accepted the 21 August 2014 resignation of Pavlo Sheremeta, until then Minister of Economic Development and Trade. [20]

July 2014 coalition collapse

On 24 July 2014, the coalition supporting the Yatsenyuk government collapsed [1] after UDAR and Svoboda announced that they had left the coalition to pave the way for early parliamentary elections. [21] UDAR faction leader Vitaliy Kovalchuk explained his party's actions with his observation that "the Verkhovna Rada is not set for constructive work in accordance with the will of the Ukrainian people". [21] In addition, 15 independent deputies and eight Batkivschyna deputies also quit the coalition, [21] soon followed by four more independent deputies. [1] Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk announced his resignation in the late afternoon on 24 July 2014. [2] During his announcement of resignation in parliament Yatsenyuk hinted that the coalition had collapsed because politicians did not want to be seen involved in making budget cuts and had thus placed "political interest above the fate of the country"; according to him, this was "a moral and an ethical crime". [22] Yatsenyuk's resignation had to be officially accepted by the parliament and it did not do this the next day; parliament's next chance to accept his resignation would be at its following session on 31 July 2014. [23] [24]

UDAR faction leader Vitaliy Kovalchuk stated that since Yatsenyuk had not written a letter of resignation ("and in accordance with the Constitution, Yatsenyuk had to file the verbal statement"), parliament could not accept his resignation; Kovalchuk argued that hence Yatsenyuk was still Prime Minister. [25] Nevertheless, (also on 25 June 2014) the Yatsenyuk government appointed Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine for Regional Policy – Minister of Regional Development, Construction and Housing and Communal Services of Ukraine Volodymyr Groysman as its acting Prime Minister. [26] In the evening of 25 July, the parliamentary press service stated that the body had "received the statement of the Prime Minister of Ukraine of his resignation". [27] The Verkhovna Rada declined his resignation on 31 July 2014, with only 16 out of 450 MPs voted for his resignation. [3]

Policy

In early August 2014, the Yatsenyuk government introduced draft tax reform legislation that would reduce the number of taxes and fees from 22 to 9. [28]

The government stated that it did not intend to make Ukraine a member of NATO. [29]

The government drew criticism over the repeal of a law that protected the official use of the Russian language in Ukraine. [30] [31]

Composition

Party keyBatkivshchyna6
Svoboda3
Non-partisan/Undisclosed9
OfficeIncumbent [6]
Prime Minister of UkraineArseniy Yatsenyuk
First Vice Prime Minister (Law enforcement and power bloc)Vitaly Yarema (until 19 June 2014)
Post vacant(from 19 June 2014) [16]
Vice Prime Minister (Humanitarian Policy) Oleksandr Sych
Vice Prime Minister (Regional Policy) Volodymyr Groysman
Minister of Regional Development, Construction and Communal Living
Minister of Justice Pavlo Petrenko
Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrii Deshchytsia (acting) (to 19 June 2014)
Pavlo Klimkin [19] (19 June 2014 --)
Minister of Finance Oleksandr Shlapak
Minister of Social Policy Lyudmyla Denisova
Minister of Health Oleh Musiy (until 1 October 2014)
Post vacant(from 1 October 2014)
Minister of Economy and TradePavlo Sheremeta [32] (until 2 September 2014) [20]
Anatoliy Maksyuta (acting) from 3 September 2014) [33]
Minister of Education and Science Serhiy Kvit
Minister of Culture Yevhen Nyshchuk [32]
Minister of Defense Ihor Tenyukh (acting) (until 25 March 2014)
Mykhailo Koval (acting) (from 25 March 2014 until 3 July 2014)
Valeriy Heletey (from 3 July 2014 until 14 October 2014)
Stepan Poltorak (from 14 October 2014)
Minister of Internal Affairs Arsen Avakov
Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food Ihor Shvaika
Ministry of Fuel and Energy Yuriy Prodan
Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources of Ukraine Andriy Mokhnyk
Minister of Infrastructure of Ukraine Maksym Burbak
Ministry of Youth and Sports Dmytro Bulatov
Minister of the Cabinet of Ministers Ostap Semerak [34]
Minister of Revenues and Duties (office liquidated on 1 March 2014)
Minister of Industrial Policy (office reorganized)

On 12 November 2014, the ministers of Svoboda resigned and became acting ministers until the formation of a new government. [35]

International response

Arseniy Yatsenyuk and U.S. Vice President Joe Biden in Kyiv, Ukraine, 22 April 2014 VP Biden meets PM Yatsenyuk in Kyiv, Ukraine, April 22, 2014 (13981695944).jpg
Arseniy Yatsenyuk and U.S. Vice President Joe Biden in Kyiv, Ukraine, 22 April 2014

A majority of the west recognized the government, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Prime Minister of Latvia Laimdota Straujuma, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, [36] and Prime Minister of Lithuania Algirdas Butkevičius. [37] [38] [39] On 27 February 2014, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden told Yatsenyuk that his interim government had the full support of the United States. [40] [41] [42] [43]

A few days later, the United States Secretary of State John Kerry visited the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv on 4 March 2014 and met with Yatsenyuk. He was followed by members of the European Union [ who? ], who met with members of his government prior to a EU summit on 6 March 2014. [44] [45] [46]

Russia, however, denounced the events that led to the previous government's ouster as an illegitimate coup and considered the Yatsenyuk government illegitimate. [lower-alpha 1] [lower-alpha 2] [lower-alpha 3] [lower-alpha 4]

Notes

  1. ↑ Gumuchian; Morgan; Chance (2014) "Moscow has denounced the events that led to Yanukovych's ouster as an illegitimate coup and has refused to recognize the new Ukrainian authorities, putting the two countries on a collision course over control of Crimea, which has longstanding ties to Russia and has thousands of Russian troops stationed there." [47]
  2. ↑ Dawber (2014) "Vladimir Putin has given a confident performance in front of the media, insisting that the events of the last 10 days in Ukraine amounted to nothing less than a coup d'état." [48]
  3. ↑ The Washington Post (2014) "[Putin says:] Are the current authorities legitimate? The Parliament is partially, but all the others are not. The current Acting President is definitely not legitimate. There is only one legitimate President, from a legal standpoint. Clearly, he has no power. However, as I have already said, and will repeat: Yanukovych is the only undoubtedly legitimate President." [49]
  4. ↑ BBC News (2014) "But Crimea's First Deputy PM Rustam Temirgaliev dismissed the suggestion, saying Crimea views the new authorities in Kiev as illegitimate." [50]

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