Approval of Arseniy Yatsenyuk's government, 2014

December 11, 2014, Kyiv.

A report on the parliament’s approval of the Arseniy Yatsenyuk government’s action plan. The Verkhovna Rada, session hall; present at the presidium are Verkhovna Rada Chairman Volodymyr Groysman and his deputies—Andriy Parubiy and Oksana Syroid; Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk delivering a speech from the podium (regarding the presented economic reform program); Verkhovna Rada corridors; a verbal exchange between a journalist and MPs Mykhailo Poplavskyi and Serhii Poyarkov in the Verkhovna Rada cafeteria; comments from MPs; voting; scoreboard with results.

Comments: MP Semen Semenchenko, “Samopomich” faction; Yuriy Lutsenko, leader of the “Petro Poroshenko Bloc” faction; Tetiana Bakhteyeva, “Opposition Bloc”; Minister of Social Policy Pavlo Rozenko; MP Mustafa Nayem, “Petro Poroshenko Bloc” faction.

Background: The approval of the government’s action program granted the Cabinet of Ministers a one-year immunity from dismissal. The decision was adopted in the aftermath of the Revolution of Dignity, against the backdrop of the war in eastern Ukraine and a deep economic crisis. The program outlined key directions for reforms and the stabilization of the state during a period of political and security instability.