Groysman Government

Groysman Government
18th cabinet of Ukraine (since 1990)
Date formed	14 April 2016
People and organisations
Head of government	Volodymyr Groysman
Deputy head of government	Stepan Kubiv Volodymyr Kistion Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze Pavlo Rozenko Vyacheslav Kyrylenko Hennadiy Zubko
Head of state	Petro Poroshenko
No. of ministers	24
Member parties	Petro Poroshenko Bloc People's Front
Status in legislature	Coalition
Opposition party	Opposition Bloc
Opposition leader	Yuriy Boyko
History
Predecessor	Second Yatsenyuk government

The Groysman government was formed on 14 April 2016, led by Volodymyr Groysman. It is the third Ukrainian cabinet formed since the 2014 Ukrainian revolution, following on from the first and second Yatsenyuk governments.

On 10 April 2016 Arseniy Yatsenyuk announced that he would resign as Prime Minister and would ask parliament to fire him on 12 April 2016. On 25 March 2016 Parliamentary Speaker Volodymyr Groysman 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. On 14 April Groysman was confirmed by the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine's parliament) as Prime Minister.

As Petro Poroshenko Bloc and People's Front together lacked a parliamentary majority (and a couple of Petro Poroshenko Bloc MP's 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.

Under the Constitution of Ukraine the Ukrainian President submits nominations to parliament for the post of Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister of Defense. When the Groysman Government was installed Pavlo Klimkin was reappointed as Foreign minister and Stepan Poltorak was reappointed as Minister of Defence.

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