Approved a new Prime Minister of Ukraine | In Russia and CIS | News |
March 12, 2010 – 3:00 am
Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine today approved Mykola Azarov, Acting Head of the Party of Regions, as prime minister.
According to RIA Novosti, Ukraine, on this decision 242 deputies voted in the required minimum of 226 votes. Azarov brought to the post of a new parliamentary coalition, which formed today in a few hours before confirmation of the prime minister. The coalition includes includes Party of Regions, Communist Party and the Lytvyn Bloc, as well as several individual deputies.
Parliament also voted for the dismissal of Yulia Tymoshenko as prime minister and for the termination of the powers of its government. “For” on these issues expressed, respectively, 237 and 238 deputies.
parliament to Tymoshenko’s government resigned on March 3. Since then, members of the cabinet continued to work at their posts in the rank of Acting. The government’s resignation was preceded by a rival Yulia Tymoshenko’s victory in the struggle for the post of head of state Viktor Yanukovych in the presidential election and the dissolution of the coalition led by Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc.
