First Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine

First Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine Перший віце-прем'єр-міністр України

Incumbent Vacant since 19 June 2014^[1]
Member of	Cabinet of Ministers
Seat	Government Building, Kiev, Ukraine
Nominator	Prime Minister of Ukraine
Appointer	Supreme Council of Ukraine
Term length	No fixed term
Constituting instrument	Article 9 (About the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine)
Inaugural holder	Kostiantyn Masyk (since the independence of Ukraine)
Formation	1946 (as First Deputy Chairman of Council of Ministers)
Website	www.kmu.gov.ua/control/en

First Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine is a government post of Cabinet of Ukraine. In an absence of the Prime Minister of Ukraine performs his or her duty^{[lower-alpha 1]} as the acting Prime Minister of Ukraine. In 1991 the post was grandfathered from the already existing First Deputy Chairman that was part of the Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR.

In an absence of the First Vice Prime Minister, his or her functions are performed by other Vice Prime Ministers who are members of the Cabinet of Ministers. Similarly to Prime Minister, all office duties of the First Vice Prime Minister are supported by the Secretariat of Cabinet of Ministers.

Along with other members of Cabinet of Ministers, the newly appointed First Vice Prime Minister takes one and the same oath of office at a plenary session of the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian parliament). According to the Article 10 (Law of Ukraine about the Cabinet of Ministers), a member of Cabinet of Ministers (except for the Prime Minister of Ukraine) who refuses to take the oath is considered as such who refused to accept the post. Every newly appointed member of already existing cabinet needs to take the oath at the next plenary session of Verkhovna Rada.

List of First Vice Prime Ministers of Ukraine

Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR

No.	Name	Took Office	Left Office
1	Oleksandr Tkachenko	07 1990	08 1990	Vitaliy Masol
2	Anatoly Statynov	1990	1990	Vitaliy Masol
3	Kostyantyn Masyk	08 1990	1992	Vitold Fokin

Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine (Ukrainian SSR)

In April of 1991 the Council of Ministers represented by existing government of Vitold Fokin and created by 12th convocation of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukrainian SSR was renamed into the Cabinet of Ministers. With adoption of the Act of Independence of Ukraine, the Ukrainian SSR was officially renamed into Ukraine. Because of the 1991 August Putsch in Moscow, the Communist Party was prohibited in Ukraine. In February of 1992 there was adopted the new coat of arms.

No.	Name	Took Office	Left Office
1	Kostyantyn Masyk	08 1990	07 1992	Vitold Fokin
2	Valentyn Symonenko	07 1992	10 1992	Vitold Fokin
3	Ihor Yukhnovskyi	10 1992	03 1993	Leonid Kuchma
4	Yukhym Zvyahilsky	06 1993	07 1994	Leonid Kuchma
5	Viktor Pynzenyk	31 10 1994	8 1995	Vitaliy Masol
6	Yevhen Marchuk	1994	Jun 8 1995	Vitaliy Masol
7	Pavlo Lazarenko	Sep 1995	May 1996	Yevhen Marchuk
8	Vasyl Durdynets	06 1996	07 1997	Pavlo Lazarenko
9	Anatoly Holubchenko	08 08 1997	01 1998	Valeriy Pustovoitenko
10	Volodymyr Kuratchenko	01 1998	07 1999
11	Anatoliy Kinakh	07 1999	1999
12	Yuriy Yekhanurov	12 1999	05 2001	Viktor Yushchenko
13	Oleh Dubyna	05 2001	11 2002	Anatoliy Kinakh
14	Mykola Azarov	11 2002	04 2005	Viktor Yanukovych
15	Anatoliy Kinakh	08 2005	07 2006	Yulia Tymoshenko
16	Stanislav Stashevsky	04 2005	08 2005	Yuriy Yekhanurov
17	Mykola Azarov	07 2006	12 2007	Viktor Yanukovych
18	Oleksandr Turchynov	12 2007	11 03 2010	Yulia Tymoshenko
19	Andriy Klyuyev	11 03 2010	14 02 2012	Mykola Azarov
20	Valeriy Khoroshkovskyi	14 02 2012	24 12 2012
21	Serhiy Arbuzov	24 12 2012	27 02 2014
22	Vitaly Yarema	27 02 2014	19 06 2014^[1]	Arseniy Yatsenyuk

Notes

↑ Article 17, paragraph 2, Law of Ukraine about Cabinet of Ministers

References

1 2 MPs agree to Yarema's appointment as prosecutor general, Interfax-Ukraine (19 June 2014)

External links

Law of Ukraine About the Cabinet of Minesters. Verkhovna Rada website

Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine

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Secretariat of Cabinet of Ministers

Politics of Ukraine

Political system	Constitution President Parliament Cabinet Judicial system Budget Political parties Parliament factions Elections Referendums Foreign relations

Government of Ukraine	Fokin Government (1990–92) Kuchma Government (1992–93) Second Masol Government (1994–95) Marchuk Government (1995–96) Lazarenko Government (1996–97) Pustovoitenko Government (1997–99) Yushchenko Government (1999–01) Kinakh Government (2001–02) First Yanukovych Government (2002–04) First Tymoshenko Government (2005) Yekhanurov Government (2005–06) Second Yanukovych Government (2006–07) Second Tymoshenko Government (2007–10) First Azarov Government (2010–12) Second Azarov Government (2012–14) First Yatsenyuk Government (2014) Second Yatsenyuk Government (2014–present)

Events	Declaration of Independence (1991) Budapest memorandum (1994) Constitution (1996) Cassette Scandal (2000) Ukraine without Kuchma (2000–01) Orange Revolution (2004) Constitution amendments (2004) Political crisis (2006) Political crisis (2007) Political crisis (2008) Kharkiv Pact (2010) Cases against Yulia Tymoshenko against supporters (2010) Dictatorship Resistance Committee (2011) Law on languages (2012) Ukrainian crisis 2013–14 Euromaidan 2014 Ukrainian revolution 2014 annexation of Crimea by Russia 2014 pro-Russian unrest War in Donbass

Related articles	Legislation of Ukraine Corruption in Ukraine Ukrainian diaspora

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