First Yatsenyuk government

First Yatsenyuk government

17th Cabinet of Ukraine (since 1990)
Date formed27 February 2014
Date dissolved27 November 2014
People and organisations
Head of stateOleksandr Turchynov (acting)
Petro Poroshenko
Head of governmentArseniy Yatsenyuk
Deputy head of governmentOleksandr Sych
Volodymyr Groysman
No. of ministers20
Member partyBatkivshchyna
Svoboda
Status in legislatureCoalition
Opposition partyParty of Regions
Communist Party of Ukraine
Opposition leaderOleksandr Yefremov
Petro Symonenko
History
PredecessorSecond Azarov government
SuccessorSecond Yatsenyuk government

The first government headed by Arseniy Yatsenyuk was created in Ukraine on 27 February 2014 in the aftermath of the Revolution of Dignity.[1] The cabinet was formed as a coalition of the Batkivschyna, UDAR and Svoboda political parties, the Economic Development and Sovereign European Ukraine parliamentary factions, and a number of unaffiliated MPs.[1] On 24 July 2014, UDAR, Svoboda and 19 independent MPs exited the coalition to pave the way for the early parliamentary elections of late October 2014.[1] Prime Minister Yatsenyuk announced his resignation the same day,[2] but the Verkhovna Rada declined his resignation on 31 July 2014.[3]

After the 26 October 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election, the second Yatsenyuk government was formed.