: :inin Kyiv (EET)

Petro Poroshenko ally takes Ukraine’s top legal post


KIEV — Ukraine’s parliament appointed a close ally of President Petro Poroshenko to the post of prosecutor general Thursday, only hours after passing a law that would have barred him from the office because of his lack of the required legal qualifications.
Yuriy Lutsenko is a close confidant of Poroshenko’s and led his faction in parliament, where some deputies had been worried that giving another top job to someone from the president’s circle would concentrate too much power in his hands. Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman, who was appointed last month, is also from Poroshenko’s inner circle.

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Source: POLITICO – Europe Edition

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