First Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine

First Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine
Перший віце-прем'єр-міністр України
Incumbent
Stepan Kubiv[1]
since 14 April 2016[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. Portrait Name Took Office Left Office Chairman
1 Oleksandr Tkachenko 07 1990 08 1990 Vitaliy Masol
2 Anatoly Statynov 1990 1990
3 Kostyantyn Masyk 08 1990 1992 Vitold Fokin

Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine (Ukrainian SSR)

In April 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 1992 there was adopted the new coat of arms.

No. Portrait Name Took Office Left Office Prime Minister(s)
1 Kostyantyn Masyk 08 1990 07 1992 Vitold Fokin
2 Valentyn Symonenko 07 1992 10 1992
3 Ihor Yukhnovskyi 10 1992 03 1993 Leonid Kuchma
4 Yukhym Zvyahilsky 06 1993 07 1994
5 Viktor Pynzenyk 31 10 1994 8 1995 Vitaliy Masol
6 Yevhen Marchuk 1994 Jun 8 1995
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[2] Arseniy Yatsenyuk
Stepan Kubiv[1] 14 o4 2016[1] Incumbent Volodymyr Groysman

Notes

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

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 New Cabinet formed in Ukraine, UNIAN (14 April 2016)
  2. ↑ MPs agree to Yarema's appointment as prosecutor general, Interfax-Ukraine (19 June 2014)
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