First Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine

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[lower-alpha 1] 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.

First Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine
Перший віце-прем'єр-міністр України
Incumbent
Yulia Svyrydenko
since 4 November 2021
Member ofCabinet of Ministers
SeatGovernment Building, Kyiv, Ukraine
NominatorPrime Minister of Ukraine
AppointerSupreme Council of Ukraine
Term lengthNo fixed term
Constituting instrumentArticle 9 (About the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine)
Inaugural holderKostiantyn Masyk (since the independence of Ukraine)
Formation1946 (as First Deputy Chairman of Council of Ministers)
Websitewww.kmu.gov.ua/control/en

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. Portrait Name Took office Left office Chairman
1 Oleksandr Tkachenko July 1990 August 1990 Vitaliy Masol
2 Anatoly Statynov 1990 1990
3 Kostyantyn Masyk August 1990 1992 Vitold 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. Portrait Name Took office Left office Prime minister(s)
1 Kostyantyn Masyk August 1990 July 1992 Vitold Fokin
2 Valentyn Symonenko July 1992 October 1992
3 Ihor Yukhnovskyi October 1992 March 1993 Leonid Kuchma
4 Yukhym Zvyahilsky June 1993 July 1994
5 Viktor Pynzenyk 31 October 1994 August 1995 Vitaliy Masol
6 Yevhen Marchuk 1994 8 June 1995
7 Pavlo Lazarenko September 1995 May 1996 Yevhen Marchuk
8 Vasyl Durdynets June 1996 July 1997 Pavlo Lazarenko
9 Anatoliy Holubchenko 8 August 1997 January 1998 Valeriy Pustovoitenko
10 Volodymyr Kuratchenko January 1998 July 1999
11 Anatoliy Kinakh July 1999 1999
12 Yuriy Yekhanurov December 1999 May 2001 Viktor Yushchenko
13 Oleh Dubyna May 2001 November 2002 Anatoliy Kinakh
14 Mykola Azarov November 2002 April 2005 Viktor Yanukovych
15 Anatoliy Kinakh August 2005 July 2006 Yulia Tymoshenko
16 Stanislav Stashevsky April 2005 August 2005 Yuriy Yekhanurov
17 Mykola Azarov July 2006 December 2007 Viktor Yanukovych
18 Oleksandr Turchynov December 2007 11 March 2010 Yulia Tymoshenko
19 Andriy Klyuyev 11 March 2010 14 February 2012 Mykola Azarov
20 Valeriy Khoroshkovskyi 14 February 2012 24 December 2012
21 Serhiy Arbuzov 24 December 2012 27 February 2014
22 Vitaly Yarema 27 February 2014 19 June 2014[1] Arseniy Yatsenyuk
23 Stepan Kubiv[2] 14 April 2016[2] 29 August 2019 Volodymyr Groysman
24 Oleksiy Liubchenko 20 May 2021[3] 3 November 2021[4] Denys Shmyhal
25 Yulia Svyrydenko 4 November 2021[5] Incumbent

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

References
  1. MPs agree to Yarema's appointment as prosecutor general, Interfax-Ukraine (19 June 2014)
  2. New Cabinet formed in Ukraine, UNIAN (14 April 2016)
  3. Rada appoints Liubchenko as First Dpty PM, Minister of Economy – 293 affirmative votes, Interfax-Ukraine (21 May 2021)
  4. Rada dismisses Liubchenko from post of First Dpty PM, Economy Minister, Interfax-Ukraine (3 November 2021)
  5. Rada appoints Svyrydenko as First Dpty PM, Economy Minister, Interfax-Ukraine (4 November 2021)
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