Viktor Yanukovych
Viktor Yanukovych was Ukraine’s president during the 2013–2014 Euromaidan protests.
January 2014 government proposal
On 25 January 2014, Yanukovych offered Arseniy Yatsenyuk the premiership and Vitali Klitschko the deputy premiership for humanitarian affairs. This was a proposed government under his own presidency. It was the government arrangement discussed in the Nuland–Pyatt call, not a proposal to choose a replacement president.[1][2]
The January arrangement never took office. Yatsenyuk did not agree to head that government, and Serhiy Arbuzov chaired the caretaker Cabinet after Mykola Azarov’s resignation.[3]
February departure and early elections
On 22 February, parliament declared that Yanukovych had abandoned his constitutional duties and called an early presidential election for 25 May. The resolution passed 328–0, with no abstentions and six registered deputies not voting. Its supporters represented 72.9 percent of the constitutional 450 seats.[4]
Parliament assigned the presidential duties to Oleksandr Turchynov on 23 February, by 285 votes, and appointed Yatsenyuk prime minister on 27 February, by 371 votes. In the 25 May election, Petro Poroshenko won the presidency with 54.70 percent. The office-holder table distinguishes these positions and dates.[5][6]
Further reading
External links
- Viktor Yanukovych — Vatnik Soup, soup 331.
References
- ↑ Justice Minister Olena Lukash’s announcement of the president’s offer, reported in Yanukovych offers premier’s post to Yatseniuk, Interfax-Ukraine, 25 January 2014; Ukrainian report reproducing her statement, Ukrainska Pravda, same date.
- ↑ Ukraine crisis: Transcript of leaked Nuland–Pyatt call, BBC News, February 2014 (accessible reproduction); the speakers’ exchanges, distinct from the accompanying commentary.
- ↑ Olena Lukash’s statement after the 27 January talks, reported in Parliament will probe into government’s responsibility, Yatseniuk not ready to head cabinet, Interfax-Ukraine, 28 January 2014; Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, Mykola Azarov introduces Serhiy Arbuzov as acting Prime Minister, 29 January 2014.
- ↑ Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, Resolution on the President’s self-withdrawal and early presidential elections, 22 February 2014, No. 757-VII; full resolution; official voting record, 22 February 2014, 17:11:55. For the constitutional composition of parliament, see the OSCE/ODIHR October 2014 election report, section IV.
- ↑ Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, Plenary meeting on February 23, 2014, vote assigning presidential duties to the parliamentary chairman; Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, Prime Minister of Ukraine and composition of Government appointed, 27 February 2014, parliamentary votes and full government composition.
- ↑ Central Election Commission of Ukraine, Official notification of the results of the 25 May 2014 presidential election, published in Uryadovyi Kurier; Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Observation of the early presidential election in Ukraine (25 May 2014), Doc. 13543, especially paragraph 38 on Dobkin’s support from the Party of Regions.
