Following months of political turmoil, Ukraine’s parliament on Thursday approved Volodymyr Groysman as the country’s new prime minister and confirmed a new cabinet.
Groysman, 38, is a loyalist of President Petro Poroshenko, and replaces the deeply unpopular Arensiy Yatsenyuk as government leader.
His appointment was backed by 257 MPs, topping the minimum threshold of 226 votes.
Groysman, who had served as parliamentary speaker, promised to speed up economic reforms and tackle the pervasive corruption that has dismayed both the country’s foreign backers and Ukrainians hoping for a better government after the country’s 2014 revolution.
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Source: POLITICO – Europe Edition
