First Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine explained

Post:First Deputy Prime Minister
Body:Ukraine
Перший віце-прем'єр-міністр України
Insignia:Lesser Coat of Arms of Ukraine.svg
Insigniasize:100px
Termlength:No fixed term
Incumbent:Yulia Svyrydenko
Incumbentsince:4 November 2021
Nominator:Prime Minister of Ukraine
Appointer:Supreme Council of Ukraine
Member Of:Cabinet of Ministers
Seat:Government Building, Kyiv, Ukraine
Constituting Instrument:Article 9 (About the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine)
Formation:1946 (as First Deputy Chairman of Council of Ministers)
Inaugural:Kostiantyn Masyk (since the independence of Ukraine)
Website:www.kmu.gov.ua/control/en

First Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine is a government post of the Cabinet of Ukraine. In the absence of the prime minister of Ukraine, the first vice prime minister performs his or her duties as the acting prime minister. 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 the prime minister, all official duties of the first vice prime minister are supported by the Secretariat of the Cabinet of Ministers.

Along with other members of the Cabinet of Ministers, a newly appointed first vice prime minister takes the same oath of office at a plenary session of the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian parliament). According to Article 10 of the Law of Ukraine about the Cabinet of Ministers, a member of the Cabinet of Ministers (except the prime minister) who refuses to take the oath is considered to have refused to accept the post. Every newly appointed member of an already existing cabinet needs to take the oath at the next plenary session of the Verkhovna Rada.

List of first vice prime ministers of Ukraine

Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR

No.PortraitNameTook officeLeft officeChairman
July 1990 August 1990Vitaliy Masol
1990 1990
August 1990 1992Vitold Fokin

Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine

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.PortraitNameTook officeLeft officePrime minister(s)
August 1990 July 1992Vitold Fokin
July 1992 October 1992
October 1992 March 1993Leonid Kuchma
June 1993 July 1994
31 October 1994 August 1995Vitaliy Masol
1994 8 June 1995
September 1995 May 1996Yevhen Marchuk
June 1996 July 1997Pavlo Lazarenko
8 August 1997 January 1998Valeriy Pustovoitenko
January 1998 July 1999
July 1999 1999
December 1999 May 2001Viktor Yushchenko
May 2001 November 2002Anatoliy Kinakh
November 2002 April 2005Viktor Yanukovych
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" | || Anatoliy Kinakh |August 2005 |July 2006

| rowspan=1 style="background:;" || rowspan=1 | Yulia Tymoshenko|-! style="background:;" | || Stanislav Stashevsky |April 2005 |August 2005| rowspan=1 style="background:;" || rowspan=1 | Yuriy Yekhanurov|-! style="background: ;" | || Mykola Azarov |July 2006 |December 2007| rowspan=1 style="background:;" || rowspan=1 | Viktor Yanukovych

|-! style="background: ;" | || Oleksandr Turchynov |December 2007 |11 March 2010| rowspan=1 style="background:;" || rowspan=1 | Yulia Tymoshenko

|-! style="background:;" | || Andriy Klyuyev |11 March 2010 |14 February 2012| rowspan=3 style="background:;" || rowspan=3 | Mykola Azarov

|-! style="background:;" | || Valeriy Khoroshkovskyi |14 February 2012 |24 December 2012

|-! style="background:;" | || Serhiy Arbuzov |24 December 2012 |27 February 2014

|-! style="background:;" | || Vitaly Yarema |27 February 2014 |19 June 2014[1] | rowspan=1 style="background:;" || rowspan=1 | Arseniy Yatsenyuk

|-! style="background: ;" | || Stepan Kubiv[2] |14 April 2016[2] |29 August 2019| rowspan=1 style="background:;" || rowspan=1 | Volodymyr Groysman|-! style="background: #CCFFFF};" | ||Oleksiy Liubchenko |20 May 2021[3] |3 November 2021[4] | rowspan="2" style="background:#EEEEEE;" || rowspan="2" |Denys Shmyhal|-! style="background: #CCFFFF};" | ||Yulia Svyrydenko|4 November 2021[5] | Incumbent|-|}

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Notes and References

  1. http://en.interfax.com.ua/news/general/210045.html MPs agree to Yarema's appointment as prosecutor general
  2. http://www.unian.info/politics/1319232-new-cabinet-formed-in-ukraine.html New Cabinet formed in Ukraine
  3. https://en.interfax.com.ua/news/economic/745255.html Rada appoints Liubchenko as First Dpty PM, Minister of Economy – 293 affirmative votes
  4. https://en.interfax.com.ua/news/general/777273.html Rada dismisses Liubchenko from post of First Dpty PM, Economy Minister
  5. https://en.interfax.com.ua/news/general/777584.html Rada appoints Svyrydenko as First Dpty PM, Economy Minister