Vasyl Horbal | |
Office: | Governor of Lviv Oblast |
Term Start: | April 2010 |
Term End: | December 2010 |
Predecessor: | Mykola Kmit |
Successor: | Mykhailo Tsymbaliuk |
Birth Date: | 18 March 1971 |
Birth Place: | Lviv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union |
Party: | Party of Regions |
Alma Mater: | Kyiv University Academy of Internal Affairs |
Native Name Lang: | uk |
Vasyl Mykhailovych Horbal (Ukrainian: Василь Михайлович Горбаль; born 18 March 1971) is a Ukrainian politician, former member of the Verkhovna Rada.
In 1993-2002 he worked for various banks in Kyiv and since 1996 as a director of Ukrgasbank. In 2002-2010 Horbal was a member of Verkhovna Rada representing the Party of Regions.[1]
In 2008 he unsuccessfully ran for the mayor of Kyiv.
In April 2010 Horbal was appointed Governor of Lviv Oblast.[1] After being appointed as a governor Horbal was supposed to terminated his parliamentary duty, but instead even though he physically was in Lviv, his card voted on several issues in parliament including the so-called Kharkiv pact. After a secret ballot in which 66 deputies of the Lviv Oblast Council expressed their no-confidence in the Governor, President Viktor Yanukovych dismissed Horbal in December 2010.[1]