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The Prime Minister of Ukraine (Ukrainian: Прем'єр-міністр України, Prem'ier-ministr Ukrayiny) is Ukraine's head of government presiding over the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, which is the highest body of the executive branch of the Ukrainian government.
Since Ukrainian independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, there have been 15 Prime Ministers (19 counting acting PMs). Mykola Azarov is the incumbent Prime Minister since his confirmation on March 11, 2010. Unlike the President of Ukraine, who is directly elected by popular vote every five years, the Prime Minister is appointed by the President upon the ratification of the candidate by the parliament, the Verkhovna Rada.
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Note: According to the Encyclopedia of Ukraine the government of Prokopovych was the last one before going into exile.
Most of representatives were members of the Ukrainian Radical Democratic Party (former Ukrainian Party of Socialists-Federalists). They were supported by Ukrainian Social Democratic Labour Party and Ukrainian National Democratic Party (Alliance). In opposition to them were the Ukrainian Party of Socialist Revolutionaries, the Ukrainian Union of Farmers-Statesmen (Hetmanists), the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, and, of course, the Communists.
All representatives were members of the leading party the Ukrainian National Democratic Party.
All representatives were members of the Communist Party of Soviet Union, due to the "Dictatorship of Proletariat" led by the Communist Party.
# | Picture | Name | Took office | Left office | Party | Government | Parliament (Election) |
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— | Vitold Fokin (acting) |
23 October 1990 | 14 November 1990 | Communist Party of Ukraine | — | I (1990) | |
1 | Vitold Fokin | 14 November 1990 | 2 October 1992 | Non-partisan | Fokin | ||
— | Valentyn Symonenko (acting) |
2 October 1992 | 13 October 1992 | Non-partisan | |||
2 | Leonid Kuchma | 13 October 1992 | 22 September 1993 | Non-partisan | Kuchma | ||
— | Yukhym Zvyahilsky (acting) |
22 September 1993 | 16 June 1994 | Non-partisan | — | ||
3 | Vitaliy Masol | 16 June 1994 | 1 March 1995 | Non-partisan | Masol II | II (1994) | |
— | Yevhen Marchuk (acting) |
1 March 1995 | 8 June 1995 | Non-partisan | — | ||
4 | Yevhen Marchuk | 8 June 1995 | 28 May 1996 | Marchuk | |||
5 | Pavlo Lazarenko | 28 May 1996 | 2 July 1997 | Hromada | Lazarenko | ||
— | Vasyl Durdynets (acting) |
2 July 1997 | 30 July 1997 | Non-partisan | — | ||
6 | Valeriy Pustovoitenko | 30 July 1997 | 22 December 1999 | People's Democratic Party | Pustovoitenko | ||
III (1998) | |||||||
7 | Viktor Yushchenko | 22 December 1999 | 29 May 2001 | Non-partisan | Yushchenko | ||
8 | Anatoliy Kinakh | 29 May 2001 | 21 November 2002 | Party of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of Ukraine |
Kinakh | ||
IV (2002) | |||||||
9 | Viktor Yanukovych 1st term |
21 November 2002 | 7 December 2004 | Party of Regions | Yanukovych I PR–SDPU(o) |
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— | Mykola Azarov (acting) |
7 December 2004 | 28 December 2004 | Party of Regions | |||
(9) | Viktor Yanukovych 1st term |
28 December 2004 | 5 January 2005 | Party of Regions | |||
— | Mykola Azarov (acting) |
5 January 2005 | 24 January 2005 | Party of Regions | — | ||
— | Yulia Tymoshenko (acting) |
24 January 2005 | 4 February 2005 | All-Ukrainian Union "Fatherland" (Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc) |
— | ||
10 | Yulia Tymoshenko 1st term |
4 February 2005 | 8 September 2005 | Tymoshenko I BYuT–NUNS–SPU–PPPU |
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— | Yuriy Yekhanurov (acting) |
8 September 2005 | 22 September 2005 | People's Union "Our Ukraine" | — | ||
11 | Yuriy Yekhanurov | 22 September 2005 | 4 August 2006 | Yekhanurov NUNS–SPU |
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(9) | Viktor Yanukovych 2nd term |
4 August 2006 | 18 December 2007 | Party of Regions | Alliance of National Unity PR–KPU–SPU |
V (2006) | |
(10) | Yulia Tymoshenko 2nd term |
18 December 2007 | 4 March 2010 | All-Ukrainian Union "Fatherland" (Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc) |
Tymoshenko II BYuT–NUNS |
VI (2007) | |
— | Oleksandr Turchynov (acting) |
4 March 2010 | 11 March 2010 | All-Ukrainian Union "Fatherland" (Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc) |
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12 | Mykola Azarov | 11 March 2010 | Incumbent | Party of Regions | Azarov PR–BL–KPU |