Original article in Ukrainian by Viktor Chyvokunya, UP
Translated by Anna Platonenko
Ukrayinska Pravda has found out the make-up of the new Cabinet of Ministers as of the night of December 10-11.
A number of Ministries still have a few candidates to choose from, but the backbone of the government is overall clear.
The make-up of the Cabinet of Ministers is planned to be submitted for approval by a single resolution after the Verkhovna Rada reaches a decision about Yulia Tymoshenko’s premiership.
It is interesting that the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc has exchanged the position of a Minister of Agrarian Policy of Ukraine, who was in its quota, for the portfolio of one more Vice Prime Minister (for Eurointegration issues) for the BYuT member Hryhoriy Nemyrya.
Prime Minister – Yulia Tymoshenko
First Vice Prime Minister – Oleksandr Turchynov
Vice Prime Minister for Humanitarian Issues - Ivan Vasynyuk (first deputy head of the President’s Secretariat)
Vice Prime Minister for Regional Development – Yosyp Vinsky (BYuT deputy)
Vice Prime Minister for Eurointegration – Hryhoriy Nemyrya (BYuT deputy)
Minister of Finance – Viktor Pynzenyk (an ex-Minister in Tymoshenko-Yekhanurov governments, BYuT deputy)
Minister of Economy – Bohdan Danylyshyn (Deputy Head of the Council on study of Ukraine's productive forces of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine)
Minister of Internal Affairs – Yuriy Lutsenko (ex-Minister in Tymoshenko’s government)
Minister of Emergency Situations – Volodymyr Shandra (an ex-Minister of Industrial Policy in Tymoshenko-Yekhanurov governments)
Minister of Fuel and Energy – Yuriy Prodan (Deputy Secretary of National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine)
Minister of Transport and Communications – Tariel Vasadze (owner of Zaporizhia Automobile Building Plant, BYuT deputy)
Minister of Agrarian Policy – Yuriy Melnyk (Ukrainian People’s Party member, at the same time holds the position of a Minister in Viktor Yanukovych’s government by the quota of…. The communists: he has been lobbied by Ihor Tarasyuk, the owner of Nasha Ryaba TM, Head of the State Affairs Administration)
Minister of Industrial Policy – Volodymyr Novytsky (current Minister Deputy)
Minister of Regional Development and Construction – Vasyl Kuybida (NU-NS deputy, ex-mayor of Lviv)
Minister of Ecology – Heorhiy Filipchuk (BYuT deputy, ex-governor of Chernivtsi Oblast (1990’s))
Minister of Coal Industry – Viktor Poltavets (ex-Minister of Coal Industry (1994-1995))
Minister of Foreign Affairs – not appointed so far. Candidates: Petro Poroshenko, Borys Tarasyuk, Roman Shpek, Oleksandr Chalyi
Minister of Culture – Vasul Vovkun (film director, organized Viktor Yushchenko’s inauguration)
Minister of Defense – not appointed yet. Favourite: Anatoliy Hrytsenko
Minister of Eductation – not appointed so far. Candidates: Vasyl Kremin (ex-Minister in Yushchenko-Kinakh-Yanukovych governments), Liliya Hrynevych (the Centre for Educational Monitoring
Minister of Health – Vasyl Knyazevych (Viktor Yushchenko’s head doctor, head of the medical department of the State Affairs Administration)
Minister of Labour and Social Policy – Lyudmyla Denysova (BYuT deputy, ex-head of the Pension Fund of Crimea)
Minister of Youth and Sport – Yuriy Pavlenko (ex-Minister in Tymoshenko-Ekhanurov governments)
Minister of Justice – not appointed yet. Favourite: Mykola Onishchuk (NU-NS deputy). Other candidates: Ihor Pushkin (Deputy Head of the President’s Secretariat) and Roman Zwarych (NU-NS)
Minister of the Cabinet of Ministers – Petro Krupko (held this position during Yulia Tymoshenko’s premiership, BYuT deputy)
It is expected that after the BYuT leaders finally enter the Cabinet of Ministers, the head of the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc faction will be Ivan Kyrylenko. According to Yulia Tymoshenko, he is her “godfather in politics”.
Another decision to be reached in the near future is the appointment of a new Prosecutor General of Ukraine. Candidates are Viktor Shemchuk and Volodymyr Moysyk.
Viktor Chyvokunya, UP
