At an extraordinary meeting, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine appointed Denis Shmygal, ex-deputy prime minister and former minister for the development of communities and territories, as head of the government, APA reports citing UNİAN.
Such a decision was supported by 291 deputies with the necessary minimum of 226 votes.
Shmygal, a 44-year-old native of Lviv, is a candidate of economic sciences. Since August 2019, he led the Ivano-Frankivsk Regional Administration. On February 4, 2020 he was appointed Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Development of Communities and Territories.
On March 3, 2020, the previous Prime Minister of Ukraine Andriy Goncharuk wrote a statement about his resignation from his post.
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Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky nominated Denis Shmygal as the new prime minister and asked Verkhovna Rada (parliament) to approve his candidacy, says a draft decree posted on the parliament’s website on Wednesday, APA reports.
The document is entitled ‘Draft Decree on Appointing D.A. Shmygal as Prime Minister of Ukraine.’
Earlier, Ukraine’s parliament had approved resignation of Prime Minister Alexei Goncharuk, which entailed resignation of the government.
In Goncharuk’s cabinet, Shmygal was a deputy prime minister and the communities and territories development minister.
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