Second Yanukovych government

(Redirected from Coalition of National Unity) Government of Ukraine

Second Yanukovych Government
12th Cabinet of Ukraine (since 1990)

Date formed	4 August 2006
Date dissolved	18 December 2007
People and organisations
Head of state	Viktor Yushchenko
Head of government	Viktor Yanukovych
Deputy head of government	Mykola Azarov
No. of ministers	26
Member party	Party of Regions Communist Party of Ukraine Socialist Party of Ukraine
Status in legislature	Coalition of National Unity
Opposition party	Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc NUNS
Opposition leader	Yulia Tymoshenko
History
Legislature term	5 years
Predecessor	Yekhanurov government
Successor	Second Tymoshenko government

Politics of Ukraine


Constitution Human rights
Presidency President Volodymyr Zelenskyy Office of the President National Security and Defence Council Presidential representatives Presidential symbols
Executive Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal Cabinet Shmyhal Government
Legislature Verkhovna Rada (parliament) Chairman: Ruslan Stefanchuk Committees People's Deputy of Ukraine Imperative mandate
Judiciary Constitutional Court Supreme Court Prosecutor General
Local government Local state administration (chief) Local legislature Administrative divisions Autonomous republics Oblasts Raions Cities (with special status)
Elections Central Election Commission Political parties Recent elections Presidential 2014 2019 next Parliamentary 2014 2019 next Local 2014 (Kyiv) 2015 2020 Referendums 1991 (March) 1991 (Dec) 2000
Foreign relations Ministry of Foreign Affairs Minister: Dmytro Kuleba Diplomatic missions of / in Ukraine Nationality law Passport Visa requirements Visa policy International membership CIS GUAM Ukraine–European Union relations Ukraine–NATO relations Countries Austria Belarus Canada China Finland France Georgia Germany Greece Iceland India Italy Japan Latvia Lithuania Malta Moldova Montenegro Poland Romania Russia Serbia Slovakia South Africa Sweden Transnistria United Kingdom United States International organizations CIS European Union GUAM NATO Diplomatic missions of Ukraine in Ukraine
See also Ukrainian nationalism Declaration of Independence Proclamation of Independence Cassette Scandal Ukraine without Kuchma Orange Revolution Russia–Ukraine gas disputes Universal of National Unity Political crises of 2006 2007 2008 Kharkiv Pact Annexation of Crimea by Russia 2022 Russian invasion
Ukraine portal Other countries
v t e

The Second Yanukovych Government was a governing coalition of the Party of Regions, the Communist Party and the Socialist Party in Ukraine after the 2006 Ukrainian parliamentary election and the 2006 Ukrainian political crisis. Until 24 March 2007, it was known as the Anti-Crisis Alliance (Ukrainian: Антикризова коаліція).

History

Initially the Our Ukraine Bloc intended to join the coalition and five of its ministers were initially appointed into Cabinet of Ministers of the coalition; Justice Minister Roman Zvarych, Family and Sports Minister Yuriy Pavlenko, Emergency Situations Minister Viktor Baloha, Culture Minister Ihor Likhovyy, and Health Minister Yuriy Polyachenko. By November 2006 these five ministers were dismissed by parliament or withdrawn by Our Ukraine Bloc.

Before the crisis which sparked the 2007 parliamentary election, the coalition consisted of the following 249 members of parliamentary parties:

At its highest point the Alliance consisted of 260 members, and the trend was that opposition members were willing to join the Alliance, and thereby undermine the authority of the President and move towards the 300-member constitutional majority.

On 6 April 2007 the coalition's members count was reduced to 238 members:

Fall of cabinet

President of Ukraine Yushchenko dissolved parliament on 2 April 2007 because he believed the government was acting illegally during the 2007 Ukrainian political crisis. Yushchenko argued that the constitution only allows whole parliamentary blocs to change sides, not individuals deputies. Yushchenko, Yanukovych and parliamentary speaker Oleksandr Moroz agreed in late May 2007 that the election would be held on 30 September, provided that at least 150 opposition and pro-president MPs formally gave up their seats, thereby creating the legal grounds for dissolving parliament. This happened.

Creation


Faction	Number of deputies	For	Against	Abstained	Didn't vote	Absent
Party of Regions Faction	186	179	0	2	4	1
Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc	129	5	0	0	0	124
Our Ukraine–People's Self-Defense Bloc	80	34	0	0	6	40
Socialist Party of Ukraine	33	30	1	0	0	2
Communist Party of Ukraine	21	21	0	0	0	0
All factions	449	269	1	2	10	167

Composition

The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine of the Alliance of National Unity was appointed on August 4, 2006; it served until the twelfth Cabinet and Second Tymoshenko Government was chosen on December 18, 2007. Its composition was:

Prime Minister — Viktor Yanukovych (Party of Regions)
First Vice Prime Minister, Finance Minister — Mykola Azarov (Party of Regions)
Vice Prime Minister in affairs of Building, Architecture and Housing and Communal Services — Volodymyr Rybak
Vice Prime Minister — Andriy Klyuyev (Party of Regions)
Vice Prime Minister — Dmytro Tabachnyk (Party of Regions)
Vice Prime Minister — Viktor Slauta
Vice Prime Minister — Volodymyr Radchenko (January 12 — May 25, 2007) replaced with Oleksandr Kuzmuk
Minister of Internal Affairs — Vasyl Tsushko (Socialist Party of Ukraine)
Minister for Foreign Affairs — Borys Tarasyuk (dismissed on December 1, 2006) replaced with Arseniy Yatsenyuk
Minister of Coal Mining Industry — Serhiy Tulub (Party of Regions)
Minister of Culture — Yuriy Bohutsky
Minister of Defense — Anatoliy Hrytsenko
Minister of Economy — Volodymyr Makukha replaced with Anatoliy Kinakh (Industrials and Entrepreneurs)
Minister of Education and Science — Stanislav Nikolaenko
Fuel and Energy Minister — Yuriy Boyko
Minister of Labor and Social Policy — Mykhailo Papiev
Health Minister — Yuriy Polyachenko
Minister of Agro-Industrial Complex — Yuriy Melnyk (Ukrainian People's Party)
Minister of Industrial Policy — Anatoliy Holovko
Minister of Environmental Protection — Vasyl Dzharty
Minister of Transport and Communications — Mykola Rudkovsky
Minister of Emergencies — Nestor Shufrych
Minister for Family, Youth and Sport — Viktor Korzh
Minister of Justice — Oleksandr Lavrynovych
Minister in connections with Verkhovna Rada and other state authorities — Ivan Tkalenko
Minister of the Cabinet of Ministers — Anatoliy Tolstoukhov

References

"Agreement on creation of Anti-Crisis Coalition beetwean parties" (in Ukrainian). 2006-07-07.
"Ukrainian ruling parliamentary coalition renamed as Alliance of National Unity". People's Daily Online. 2007-04-27.
Analysis: The Faces Of Ukraine's New Cabinet, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (8 August 2006)
Verkhovna Rada approves new Cabinet members, UNIAN (11 November 2006)
Ukraine on its meandering path between East and West by Andrej Lushnycky and Mykola Riabchuk, Peter Lang, 2009, ISBN 3-03911-607-X (page 38)
"Ukraine: Two Viktors, But No Clear Winner". Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. Retrieved October 6, 2006.
"Transcript of Verkhovna Rada meeting" (in Ukrainian). Official parliament website. 2007-04-06. pp. at about 13:27:02.
"Coalition officially reduced to 238 deputies" (in Ukrainian). UNIAN. 2007-04-06.
Q&A: Ukrainian parliamentary poll , BBC News (1 October 2007)
"Офіційний портал Верховної Ради України".
announcement on the Ukrainian parliamentary official website
Laws of Ukraine. Order of the Verkhovna Rada No. 10-VI: On the formation of the composition of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine. Adopted on 2007-12-18. (Ukrainian)
(Yushchenko issued a decree that Tarasyuk must keep his job. Despite a court order and a presidential decree, he was not allowed to enter cabinet meetings. Tarasyuk resigned at the end of January 2007)

External links

Governmental Portal of Ukraine - official site of the Cabinet of Ministers

v t e All Cabinets of Ukraine*
Ukrainian People's Republic (1917–20)	Vynnychenko I (1917) Vynnychenko II (1917–18) Holubovych (1918) Vasylenko (1918) Lyzohub (1918) Gerbel (1918) Chekhivsky (1919) Ostapenko (1919) Martos (1919) Mazepa (1920) Prokopovych (1920) Livytskyi (1920)
Ukrainian SSR (1917–91)	People's Secretariat (1917–18) Provisional Workers' and Peasants' Government (1918–19) Rakovsky I Revolutionary Committee (1919–20) Rakovsky II (1920–23) Chubar (1923–34) Lyubchenko (1934–37) Bondarenko–Marchak (1937–38) Korotchenko I (1938–39) Korniyets (1939–44) Khrushchev (1944–47) Korotchenko II (1948–54) Kalchenko I (1954–57) Kalchenko II (1957–61) Shcherbytsky I (1961–63) Kazanets (1963–65) Shcherbytsky II (1965–68) Shcherbytsky III (1968–72) Lyashko I (1972–76) Lyashko II (1976–81) Lyashko III (1981–86) Masol I (1987–90)
Ukraine (1991–present)	Fokin (1990–92) Kuchma (1992–93) Masol II (1994–95) Marchuk (1995–96) Lazarenko (1996–97) Pustovoitenko (1997–99) Yushchenko (1999–2001) Kinakh (2001–02) Yanukovych I (2002–04) Tymoshenko I (2005) Yekhanurov (2005–06) Yanukovych II (2006–07) Tymoshenko II (2007–10) Azarov I (2010–12) Azarov II (2012–14) Yatsenyuk I (2014) Yatsenyuk II (2014–16) Groysman (2016–19) Honcharuk (2019–20) Shmyhal (2020–present)
*Acting cabinets not included

v t e Politics of Ukraine
Political system	Constitution President Parliament Cabinet Prime Minister First Vice Prime Minister Vice Prime Ministers Judicial system Budget Political parties Parliament factions Elections Referendums Foreign relations
Government of Ukraine	Fokin government (1990–92) Kuchma government (1992–93) Second Masol government (1994–95) Marchuk government (1995–96) Lazarenko government (1996–97) Pustovoitenko government (1997–99) Yushchenko government (1999–01) Kinakh government (2001–02) First Yanukovych government (2002–04) First Tymoshenko government (2005) Yekhanurov government (2005–06) Second Yanukovych government (2006–07) Second Tymoshenko government (2007–10) First Azarov government (2010–12) Second Azarov government (2012–14) First Yatsenyuk government (2014) Second Yatsenyuk Government (2014–16) Groysman Government (2016–2019) Honcharuk Government (2019–2020) Shmyhal Government (2020–present)
Events	Declaration of Independence (1991) Budapest Memorandum (1994) Constitution (1996) Cassette Scandal (2000) Ukraine without Kuchma (2000–01) Orange Revolution (2004) Constitutional amendments (2004) Political crisis (2006) Political crisis (2007) Political crisis (2008) Kharkiv Pact (2010) Cases against Yulia Tymoshenko against supporters (2010) Dictatorship Resistance Committee (2011) Law on languages (2012) 2013–14 Euromaidan / Revolution of Dignity Russo-Ukrainian War Outline Annexation of Crimea by Russia 2014 pro-Russian unrest War in Donbas 2022 Russian invasion
Related articles	Law of Ukraine (legislation) Corruption in Ukraine Ukrainian diaspora

Categories: