First Tymoshenko government

Government of Ukraine

First Tymoshenko Government

10th Cabinet of Ukraine (since 1990)
Date formed| February 4, 2005
Date dissolved| September 8, 2005
People and organisations
Head of state| Viktor Yushchenko
Head of government| Yulia Tymoshenko
Deputy head of government| Anatoliy Kinakh
No. of ministers| 22
Member party| Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc
NUNS
Socialist Party of Ukraine
PPPU
Opposition party| Communist Party of Ukraine
Opposition leader| Petro Symonenko
History
Predecessor| First Yanukovych government
Successor| Yekhanurov government

The first Tymoshenko Government was appointed on February 4, 2005, by 373 Parliamentarians of the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian Parliament). It was supported (also by) opposition factions' Parliamentarians, including three Communists, 18 Social Democratic Party of Ukraine (united) members, 46 Regions faction members.[1][2]

On September 8, 2005, Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko sacked the entire government after both Deputy Prime Minister Mykola Tomenko and presidential chief of staff Oleksandr Zinchenko spoke out that the government was "riddled with corruption".[3]

## Creation

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### Government program "Towards the people"

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Faction[4] | Number of deputies  | For | Against  | Abstained  | Didn't vote  | Absent

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Our Ukraine | 101  | 99 | 0  | 0  | 2  | 0
Communists | 59  | 0 | 0  | 0  | 37  | 22
Regions of Ukraine | 54  | 43 | 0  | 0  | 4  | 7
Unaffiliated | 33  | 27 | 0  | 0  | 1  | 5
People's Agrarian Party of Ukraine | 33  | 32 | 0  | 0  | 0  | 1
Socialist Party of Ukraine | 24  | 24 | 0  | 0  | 0  | 0
Social Democratic Party of Ukraine (united) | 23  | 16 | 0  | 0  | 4  | 3
One Ukraine | 22  | 20 | 0  | 0  | 0  | 2
Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc | 18  | 17 | 0  | 0  | 1  | 0
Democratic Ukraine (group) | 16  | 16 | 0  | 0  | 0  | 0
People's Will | 15  | 14 | 0  | 0  | 0  | 1
Union (group) | 15  | 14 | 0  | 0  | 1  | 0
Democratic Initiatives (group) | 14  | 14 | 0  | 0  | 0  | 0
Center (group) | 12  | 12 | 0  | 0  | 0  | 0
Faction of PDP and Republic (group) | 10  | 9 | 0  | 0  | 0  | 1
All factions | 449  | 357 | 0  | 0  | 50  | 42

## Composition

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Party key  |  | Our Ukraine

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| Socialist Party of Ukraine
| Bloc Yulia Tymoshenko
| Party of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of Ukraine
Office[5] | Name minister[5] | Party[5]

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Prime Minister | Yulia Tymoshenko |
First Vice Prime Minister  | Anatoliy Kinakh[6] |
Vice Prime Minister on European Accession | Oleh Rybachuk |
Vice Prime Minister on Humanitarian and Social Issues  | Mykola Tomenko |
Vice Prime Minister on Administrative Reform  | Roman Bezsmertny |
Minister of Education and Science  | Stanislav Nikolaenko |
Minister of Transport and Communications  | Yevhen Chervonenko |
Minister of Culture and Tourism  | Oksana Bilozir |
Minister of Economics  | Serhiy Teryokhin |
Minister of Labor and Social Policy  | Viacheslav Kyrylenko |
Minister of Defense  | Anatoliy Hrytsenko |
Minister of Health Safety  | Mykola Polischuk |
Minister of Industrial Policy  | Volodymyr Shandra |
Minister of Internal Affairs | Yuriy Lutsenko |
Minister of Agrarian Policy  | Oleksandr Baranivsky |
Minister of Justice  | Roman Zvarych |
Minister of Foreign Affairs | Borys Tarasyuk |
Minister of Family, Youth and Sport  | Yuriy Pavlenko |
Minister of Finance  | Viktor Pynzenyk |
Minister of Fuel and Energy  | Ivan Plachkov |
Minister of Environmental Protection  | Pavlo Ihnatenko |
Minister of Emergencies  | David Zhvania |

## Key economic achievements of Tymoshenko’s government

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Increased salaries, pensions, scholarships;

Fulfilled one of the paragraphs of social program from Yushchenko's election agenda on support for new families: in 2005 a social aid for a newborn child was increased 12 times;

“Contraband stop” campaign was launched. The campaign was accompanied by eradication of shadow schemes in business;

Call for nationalization and re-privatization of more than 3000 enterprises. Eventually the government nationalized and then re-privatized country's biggest metallurgical plant “Kryvorizhstal”. In October 2005 it was sold for $4 billion to a new owner, which was an impressive amount compared to $8.5 billion received by the government from privatization between 1991 and 2004;

On June 16, 2005, president Viktor Yushchenko, speaker of the Verkhovna Rada Volodymyr Lytvyn and Yulia Tymoshenko signed a memorandum on guarantees of ownership rights and ensuring lawfulness for their implementation. According to Yushchenko, “Ukrainian government brought murky privatization practice to the end”;

### Reaction to crises on internal market

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In April–May 2005 Ukraine faced so called “meat, sugar and petrol crises” when prices for the abovementioned products went up by 30-50% over a couple of weeks. These crises allegedly resulted from a cartel conspiracy and it took Tymoshenko's government about 1.5 months to get the prices down to the initial level with the help of “goods intervention” mechanism;

The meat crisis was caused by increased demand for meat as a result of increased salaries. Tymoshenko's government lifted duties on imported meat, which dropped the speculative prices Tymoshenko's political opponents (Yushchenko and Yanukovych) kept criticizing her for importing “low quality meat”. At that time Tymoshenko's government made a decision to increase production of poultry, which eventually made Ukraine a poultry exporter.

The sugar and petrol crises were caused by a “cartel conspiracy” which increased prices for the abovementioned goods by 30-50%. Tymoshenko's government organized importation of cane sugar and dropped duties on imported oil products. In a couple of months the prices stabilized. In 2006 the Anti-Monopoly Committee, who investigated the “sugar crisis” issued a conclusion which said that it was a cartel monopoly with a participation of Petro Poroshenko, then-head of the National Council of Security and Defense.

In May 2005, at the height of the petrol crisis, Viktor Yushchenko publicly, sharply criticized Tymoshenko for “pressure on oil traders”.

## References

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1. ^ "PRESS RELEASE OF THE EMBASSY OF UKRAINE TO THE REPUBLIC OF ESTONIA". Archived from the original on 2011-07-20. Retrieved 2009-06-16.
2. ^ SDPU(U) faction will support Yulia Tymoshenko's appointment Prime Minister Archived 2010-12-06 at the Wayback Machine, Radio Ukraine (February 2, 2005)
3. ^ Ukraine leader sacks government, BBC News (September 8, 2005)
4. ^ "Офіційний портал Верховної Ради України".
5. ^ a b c PRESIDENT YUSHCHENKO APPOINTS THE NEW PRIME MINISTER AND MEMBERS OF HER CABINET, European Parliament (February 4, 2005)
6. ^ First Vice Premier Anatoli Kinakh introduces Yuri Artemenko, newly appointed Zaporizhia Governor, to regional administration staffers , Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine (February 12, 2005)

## External links

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* Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko presentation of the cabinet[permanent dead link‍], official website of Yulia Tymoshenko (February 4, 2005)
* Short biographies of ministers, European Parliament (February 4, 2005)

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Prime-minister: Yulia Tymoshenko
First vice-premier-minister: Anatoliy Kinakh
Vice-premier-minister on European integration: Oleh Rybachuk
Vice-premier-minister on humanitarian issues: Mykola Tomenko
Vice-premier-minister on issues of administrative and territorial reform: Roman Bezsmertnyi

| Agrarian policy  | Oleksandr Baranivskyi

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Family, youth and sports  | Yuriy Pavlenko
Transportation and Communication  | Yevhen Chervonenko
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