Politics of Ukraine

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Politics of Ukraine takes place in a framework of a semi-presidential representative democratic republic and of a multi-party system. Executive power is exercised by both the President and the Government. Legislative power is vested in the parliament (Verkhovna Rada). Scholars have described Ukraine's political system as "weak, fractured, highly personal and ideologically vacuous while the judiciary and media fail to hold politicians to account" (Dr. Taras Kuzio in 2009).^[1][2][3] Ukrainian politics has been categorised as "over-centralised" which is seen as both a legacy of the Soviet system and caused by a fear of separatism.^[2][4] Corruption in Ukraine is rampant, and widely cited, at home and abroad, as a defining characteristic (and decisive handicap) of Ukrainian society, politics and government.^[5][6][7][8]

Constitution of Ukraine

Shortly after becoming independent in 1991, Ukraine named a parliamentary commission to prepare a new constitution, adopted a multi-party system, and adopted legislative guarantees of civil and political rights for national minorities. A new, democratic constitution was adopted on 28 June 1996, which mandates a pluralistic political system with protection of basic human rights and liberties, and a semi-presidential form of government.

The Constitution was amended in December 2004^[9] to ease the resolution of the 2004 presidential election crisis. The consociationalist agreement transformed the form of government in a semi-presidentialism in which the President of Ukraine had to cohabit with a powerful Prime Minister. The Constitutional Amendments took force between January and May 2006.

The Constitutional Court of Ukraine in October 2010 overturned the 2004 amendments, considering them unconstitutional.^[10] The present valid Constitution of Ukraine is therefore the 1996 text.

Fundamental Freedoms

Freedom of religion is guaranteed by law, although religious organizations are required to register with local authorities and with the central government. Minority rights are respected in accordance with a 1991 law guaranteeing ethnic minorities the right to schools and cultural facilities and the use of national languages in conducting personal business. According to the Ukrainian constitution, Ukrainian is the only official state language. However, in Crimea and some parts of eastern Ukraine—areas with substantial ethnic Russian minorities—use of Russian is widespread in official business.

Freedom of speech and press are guaranteed by law, but authorities sometimes interfere with the news media through different forms of pressure (see Freedom of the press in Ukraine). In particular, the failure of the government to conduct a thorough, credible, and transparent investigation into the 2000 disappearance and murder of independent journalist Georgiy Gongadze has had a negative effect on Ukraine's international image. Over half of Ukrainians polled by the Razumkov Center in early October 2010 (56.6%) believed political censorship existed in Ukraine.^[11]

Official labor unions have been grouped under the Federation of Labor Unions. A number of independent unions, which emerged during 1992, among them the Independent Union of Miners of Ukraine, have formed the Consultative Council of Free Labor Unions. While the right to strike is legally guaranteed, strikes based solely on political demands are prohibited.

Executive branch

The president is elected by popular vote for a five-year term.^[12] The President nominates the Prime Minister, who must be confirmed by parliament. The Prime-minister and cabinet are de jure appointed by the Parliament on submission of the President and Prime Minister respectively. Pursuant to Article 114 of the Constitution of Ukraine.

Legislative branch

The Verkhovna Rada (Parliament of Ukraine) has 450 members, elected for a four-year term (five-year between 2006 and 2012 with the 2004 amendments). Prior to 2006, half of the members were elected by proportional representation and the other half by single-seat constituencies. Starting with the March 2006 parliamentary election, all 450 members of the Verkhovna Rada were elected by party-list proportional representation. The Verkhovna Rada initiates legislation, ratifies international agreements, and approves the budget.

The overall trust in legislative powers in Ukraine is very low.^[13]

Political parties and elections

Ukrainian parties tend not have clear-cut ideologies^[14] but incline to centre around civilizational and geostrategic orientations (rather than economic and socio-political agendas, as in Western politics),^[15] around personalities and business interests.^{[16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27]} Party membership is lower than 1% of the population eligible to vote (compared to an average of 4.7% in the European Union^[28]).^[29][30]

Parties currently represented in the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine's parliament)

	(Shading indicates majority caucus)									Total	Vacant
	Petro Poroshenko Bloc	People's Front	Opposition Bloc	Self Reliance	Radical Party	Fatherland	Revival[a 1]	People's Will[a 2][a 3]	Non-affiliated[a 4]
End of previous convocation	DNP[a 5]	DNP[a 6]	DNP[a 7]	DNP	1	86	41	35	93	445	5
Seats won in 2014 election[31]	132	82	29	33	22	19	DNP	DNP	96	423	27
November 27, 2014 (first session)[39][35]	145	83	40	32			19	20	38	418	32
December 2, 2014[40][35]	147									420	30
February 5, 2015[35]	150	82		31	21			18	42	422	28
June 24, 2015[35]	144	81	43				22	19		422	28
October 22, 2015[35]	142			26				20	48	422	28
February 13, 2016[35]	136						23		53	422	28
April 11, 2016[35]	141								47	422	28
April 12, 2016[35]	145[a 8]							19	44	422	28
July 19, 2016[35]	142								42	422	28
September 21, 2016[35]	143					21			46	422	28
Latest voting share	7001339000000000000♠33.9%	7001192000000000000♠19.2%	7001102009999900000♠10.2%	7000620000000000000♠6.2%	7000500000000000000♠5.0%	7000500000000000000♠5.0%	7000550000000000000♠5.5%	7000450000000000000♠4.5%	7001109000000000000♠10.9%	7001938000000000000♠93.8%	7000620000000000000♠6.2%
↑ Revival was briefly called Economic Development in 2014. It was also a parliamentary group like People's Will until 2015. ↑ People's Will is a parliamentary group. Parliamentary groups consist of non-partisan deputies or representatives of parties that did not overcome election threshold (i.e. Svoboda, Strong Ukraine, etc.). ↑ The People's Will deputy group in previous convocation was known as Sovereign European Ukraine. ↑ Parties that did not pass the 5% threshold of the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election, Svoboda (7 seats), Right Sector (1 seat), Strong Ukraine (1 seat), Volia (1 seat), and Zastup (1 seat) are part of non-affiliated.[31] After the 17 July 2016 constituency mid-term elections the parties UKROP and Our Land joined them.[32] ↑ 30% of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc election list was filled by members of the Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reform (UDAR), which did not participate in the 2014 election independently. UDAR participated in the 2012 election, consisting of a faction of 41 deputies in the previous convocation.[33][34][35] ↑ People's Front is a September 2014 split off from Fatherland; many current members of the People's Front were members of the Fatherland faction of the previous convocation.[36][37] ↑ The Opposition Bloc consists mainly of former members of former President Yanukovych's Party of Regions,[38] which formed the largest caucus after the 2012 election with 185 deputies, although after the removal of Yanukovych and the 2014 Ukrainian revolution, the caucus consisted of only 78 members. ↑ The addition of these four deputies made it possible for Petro Poroshenko Bloc and People's Front to form a government without additional parties.[41]

Former parliamentary parties

A faction of nonpartisan deputies under the name Reforms for the Future existed between 16 February 2011^[42] and 15 December 2012.^{[43][44][45][35]} A faction of nonpartisan deputies under the name For Peace and Stability existed between 2 July 2014 and 27 November 2014.^[46][39]

In 1998 - 2000 there was another parliamentary faction Labour Ukraine that existed without its political party until it was registered by the Ukrainian Ministry of Justice in June 2000.^[47]

The Communist Party of Ukraine (Soviet Union) was prohibited in 1991, however its members were not excluded from the Ukrainian parliament. They formed a parliamentary faction of the Socialist Party of Ukraine. For the 1994 parliamentary elections however the ban on communist parties was lifted and there were two parties with similar ideologies running for parliament the Socialist Party of Ukraine and the Communist Party of Ukraine that was reestablished in 1993.

Presidential Election 2014

Originally scheduled to take place on 29 March 2015, the date was changed to 25 May 2014 following the 2014 Ukrainian revolution.^[48][49][50] Petro Poroshenko won the elections with 54.7% of the votes.^[51] His closest competitor was Yulia Tymoshenko, who emerged with 12.81% of the votes.^[51] The Central Election Commission reported voter turnout at over 60% excluding those regions not under government control, Crimea and a large part of the Donbass.^{[52][53][54][55][56][57][58][59][60]} Since Poroshenko obtained an absolute majority in the first round, a run-off second ballot was unnecessary.^[61]

Parliamentary Election 2012

The Central Election Commission of Ukraine finalized the vote count on 12 November 2012 but simultaneously ordered - on recommendation of the Verkhovna Rada - repeat elections (on a yet unknown date) in five troubled single-mandate constituencies where it could not establish results.^[65] Because of occurrences in these five constituencies.^[66][67][68] Hence, on 12 November 2012 445 deputies had been elected of the 450 seats in parliament.^[65][69] On 8 February 2013 the Supreme Administrative Court of Ukraine deprived 2 more deputies of power.^[70] They were banned from parliament on 3 July 2013.^[70] On 5 September 2013 the Verkhovna Rada itself set the date of all 7 re-elections to 15 December 2013.^[71]

Nationwide list

 Summary of the 28 October 2012 Verkhovna Rada election results (preliminary result with 100.00% of the ballots counted)

Parties	List votes	%	Swing %	Seats (proportional representation)	Seats (constituencies)	Seats (total)	Seats (% of total)	Change (2007)
Party of Regions	6,116,815	30.00	4.37	72	113	185	41.56	10
All-Ukrainian Union "Fatherland" (incl. United Opposition)1	5,208,390	25.55	5.16	62	39	101	22.67	55
UDAR (Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reform) of Vitaliy Klychko2	2,847,878	13.97	N/A	34	6	40	8.89	40
Communist Party of Ukraine	2,687,246	13.18	7.79	32	—	32	7.11	5
All-Ukrainian Union "Svoboda"	2,129,246	10.45	9.69	25	12	37	8.44	37
5% threshold for the party-list vote
Ukraine – Forward! of Natalia Korolevska1	322,202	1.58	N/A	—	—	—	—	First election
Our Ukraine3	226,482	1.11	13.04	—	—	—	—	72
Radical Party of Oleh Lyashko	221,136	1.08	N/A	—	1	1	0.22	New party
Party of Pensioners of Ukraine4	114,198	0.56	0.42	—	—	—	—	0
Socialist Party of Ukraine	93,081	0.46	2.40	—	—	—	—	0
Party of Greens of Ukraine	70,316	0.35	0.05	—	—	—	—	0
Ukrainian Party "Green Planet"10	70,117	0.35	N/A	—	—	—	—	0
Russian Bloc11	63,530	0.31	N/A	—	—	—	—	0
Greens	51,386	0.25	N/A	—	—	—	—	New party
Ukraine of the Future	38,544	0.19	N/A	—	—	—	—	New party
Political Association "Native Fatherland"	32,724	0.16	N/A	—	—	—	—	New party
People's Labor Union of Ukraine	22,854	0.11	N/A	—	—	—	—	First election
New Politics	21,033	0.10	N/A	—	—	—	—	First election
All-Ukrainian Association "Community"5	17,678	0.08	N/A	—	—	—		0
UNA-UNSO6	16,937	0.08	N/A	—	—	—	—	0
Liberal Party of Ukraine7	15,566	0.07	N/A	—	—	—	—	0
United Centre8	DNP11	DNP	N/A	—	3	3	0.67	New party
People's Party9	DNP11	DNP	N/A	—	2	2	0.44	18
Union10	DNP11	DNP	N/A	—	1	1	0.22	1
Independents (elected in electoral districts (see below))	DNP11	DNP	N/A	—	43	43	9.78	43
Invalid ballot papers	409,068	1.97	0.35
Total (turnout 57.99%)	20,759,472	100%	4.03	225	220	445	98.89	5
Sources: (Proportional votes, Constituency seats) Central Electoral Commission (in Ukrainian) & ((% of total seats) Ukrayinska Pravda Notes: 1Participated as part of the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc in 2007 (Swing % and Seat Change are based on the best performed party) 2Transformed in 2010 from another party, the Political Party "European Capital", and that party did not participate in 2007 3Participated as part of the Our Ukraine–People's Self-Defense Bloc in 2007 (Swing % and Seat Change are based on the best performed party) 4Participated as part of the Bloc of the Party of Pensioners of Ukraine in 2007 5"Missed" registration in 2007 6Suspension in 2007 7Boycotted in 2007 8Transformed in 2008 from another party, the Party of Private Property, and that party did not participate in 2007 9Participated as part of the Lytvyn Bloc in 2007 10Participated as part of the KUCHMA Bloc in 2007 11DNP – Did not participate in party voting

Electoral districts

Next to the 87 political parties^[72] 1150 independent candidates took part in the 225 electoral districts.^[73]

Presidential Election 2010

The first round of voting took place on January 17, 2010. Eighteen candidates nominated for election in which incumbent president Viktor Yushchenko was voted out of office having received only 5.45% of the vote. The two highest polling candidates, Viktor Yanukovych (34.32%) and Yulia Tymoshenko (25.05%), will face each other in a final run-off ballot scheduled to take place on February 7, 2010

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  Viktor Yanukovych (First round) - percentage of total national vote (35.33%)
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  Yulia Tymoshenko (First round) - percentage of total national vote (25.05%)
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  Serhiy Tihipko (First round) - percentage of total national vote (13.06%)
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  Arseniy Yatsenyuk (First round) - percentage of total national vote (6.69%)
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  Viktor Yushchenko (First round) - percentage of total national vote (5.46%)
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  Total vote distribution (First round) - percentage of total national vote

Parliamentary Election 2007

Political alignment 2007

Swing 2006 to 2007 (Top Six parties)

Highest vote per region (Percentage by national vote)

Party of Regions vote per region (Percentage by national vote)

Bloc Yulia Tymoshenko vote per region (Percentage by national vote)

Our Ukraine People's self-defence vote per region (Percentage by national vote)

Communist Party of Ukraine vote per region (Percentage by national vote)

Bloc Lytvyn vote per region (Percentage by national vote)

Socialist Party of Ukraine vote per region (Percentage by national vote)

 Summary of the 30 September 2007 Verkhovna Rada election results

Parties and blocs	Votes	%	Swing %	Seats	(2006)
Party of Regions (Партія регіонів)	8,013,895	34.37	2.23	175	-11 (186)
Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc (Блок Юлії Тимошенко) All-Ukrainian Union "Fatherland" Ukrainian Social Democratic Party Reforms and Order Party(6)	7,162,193	30.71	8.43	156	+27 (129)
Our Ukraine–People's Self-Defense Bloc(1) (Блок Наша Україна–Народна Самооборона) People's Union "Our Ukraine" People's Movement of Ukraine Ukrainian Republican Party Assembly Christian Democratic Union Forward, Ukraine!(8) Ukrainian People's Party(11) European Party of Ukraine(9) Citizen's Party "PORA"(6) Motherland Defenders Party(7)	3,301,282	14.15	0.21	72	–9 (81)
Communist Party of Ukraine (Комуністична партія України)	1,257,291	5.39	1.73	27	+6 (21)
Lytvyn Bloc(2) (Блок Литвина) People's Party Labour Party of Ukraine(10)	924,538	3.96	1.53	20	+20 (0)
Socialist Party of Ukraine (Соціалістична партія України)	668,234	2.86	2.82		33 (33)
Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine(3) (Прогресивна соціалістична партія України)	309,008	1.32	1.61
All-Ukrainian Union "Freedom" (Всеукраїнське об'єднання "Свобода")	178,660	0.76	0.41
Party of Greens of Ukraine (Партія Зелених України)	94,505	0.40	0.14
Electoral Bloc of Liudmyla Suprun – Ukrainian Regional Asset(4) (Виборчий блок Людмили Супрун — Український регіональний актив) Popular Democratic Party Democratic Party of Ukraine Republican Christian Party(5)	80,944	0.34	0.15
Communist Party of Ukraine (renewed) (Комуністична партія України (оновлена))	68,602	0.29	N/A(5)
Party of Free Democrats(9) (Партія Вільних Демократів)	50,852	0.21
Bloc of the Party of Pensioners of Ukraine (Блок партії пенсіонерів України) Party of Pensioners of Ukraine Party of Protection of Pensioners of Ukraine(12)	34,845	0.14
Party of National Economic Development of Ukraine (Партія національно-економічного розвитку України)	33,489	0.14
Ukrainian People's Bloc (Український Народний Блок) Political Party "Cathedral Ukraine"(11) All-Ukrainian Chornobyl People's Party "For the Welfare and Protection of the People"(12)	28,414	0.12
Peasants' Bloc "Agrarian Ukraine" (Селянський Блок "Аграрна Україна") Rural Revival Party People's Party New Ukraine	25,675	0.11
Christian Bloc (Християнський блок) Social-Christian Party All-Ukrainian Political Party "Ecology and Social Protection"	24,597	0.10
Electoral Bloc of Political Parties "KUCHMA" (Виборчий блок політичних партій «КУЧМА») Party "Union" All-Ukrainian Union "Center"	23,676	0.10
Bloc "All-Ukrainian Community" (Блок "Всеукраїнська громада") All-Ukrainian Party of Peace and Unity National-Democratic Association "Ukraine" Conscience of Ukraine Political Party of Small and Medium-sized Businesses of Ukraine	12,327	0.05
All-Ukrainian Party of People's Trust (Всеукраїнська партія Народної Довіри)	5,342	0.02
Against all	637,185	2.73
Invalid ballot papers	379,658	1.62
Total (turnout 62.02%)	23,315,257	100		450
Source: Central Election Commission of Ukraine (English) More detailed information: Центральної виборчої комісії України (Ukrainian) Notes: ^(1) Participated as Bloc Our Ukraine in 2006 ^(2) Participated as Lytvyn People's Bloc in 2006 ^(3) Participated as People's Opposition Bloc in 2006 ^(4) Participated as Block of People's Democratic Parties in 2006 ^(5) Did not participate in 2006 ^(6) Participated as Pora-Party of Reforms and Order in 2006 ^(7) Participated in Bloc of Yuriy Karamazin in 2006 ^(8) Participated as independent in 2006 ^(9) New party ^(10) Participated in Bloc Borys Olijnyk and Myhailo Syrota in 2006 ^(11) Participated in Ukrainian National Bloc of Kostenko and Plyushch in 2006 ^(12) Participated in Electoral bloc "Power of People" in 2006

Presidential Election 2004

The initial second round of the Presidential Election 2004 (on November 17, 2004) was followed by the Orange Revolution, a series of peaceful protests that resulted in the nullification of the second round. The Supreme Court of Ukraine ordered a repeat of the re-run to be held on December 26, 2004, and asked the law enforcement agencies to investigate cases of election fraud.

Judicial branch

constitutional jurisdiction:

• the Constitutional Court of Ukraine.

general jurisdiction:

• the Supreme Court of Ukraine;
• high specialized courts: the High Arbitration Court of Ukraine (Ukrainian: Вищий господарський суд України), the High Administrative Court of Ukraine;
• regional courts of appeal, specialized courts of appeal;
• local district courts.

Laws, acts of the parliament and the Cabinet, presidential edicts, and acts of the Crimean parliament (Autonomous Republic of Crimea) may be nullified by the Constitutional Court of Ukraine, when they are found to violate the Constitution of Ukraine. Other normative acts are subject to judicial review. The Supreme Court of Ukraine is the main body in the system of courts of general jurisdiction.

The Constitution of Ukraine provides for trials by jury. This has not yet been implemented in practice. Moreover, some courts provided for by legislation as still in project, as is the case for, e.g., the Court of Appeals of Ukraine. The reform of the judicial branch is presently under way. Important is also the Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine, granted with the broad rights of control and supervision.

Local government

Administrative divisions of Ukraine are 24 oblasts (regions), with each oblast further divided into rayons (districts). The current administrative divisions remained the same as the local administrations of the Soviet Union. The heads of the oblast and rayon are appointed and dismissed by the President of Ukraine and serve as representatives of the central government in Kyiv. They govern over locally elected assemblies. This system encourages regional elites to compete fiercely for control over the central government and the position of the president.^[79]

Autonomous Republic of Crimea

During 1992 a number of pro-Russian political organizations in Crimea advocated secession of Crimea and annexation to Russia. During USSR times Crimea was ceded from Russia to Ukraine in 1954 by First Secretary Nikita Khrushchev to mark the 300th anniversary of the Treaty of Pereyaslav. In July 1992, the Crimean and Ukrainian parliaments determined that Crimea would remain under Ukrainian jurisdiction while retaining significant cultural and economic autonomy, thus creating the Autonomous Republic of Crimea.

The Crimean peninsula—while under Ukraininan sovereignty, served as site for major military bases of both Ukrainian and Russian forces, and was heavily populated by ethnic Russians.

In early 2014, Ukraine's pro-Russian president, Viktor Yanukovich, was ousted by Ukraininans over his refusal to ally Ukraine with the European Union, rather than Russia. In response, Russia invaded Crimea in February 2014 and occupied it.

In March, 2014, a ^[80] a controversial referendum was held in Crimea with 97% of voters backing joining Russia.^[81] On 18 March 2014, Russia and the new, self-proclaimed Republic of Crimea signed a treaty of accession of the Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol in the Russian Federation. In response, the UN General Assembly passed resolution 68/262 declaring the referendum invalid, and officially supporting Ukraine's claim to Crimea. Although Russian retains administrative control of the peninsula, Ukraine and nearly all other nations reject Russia's claim to the territory.^[82][83]

International organization participation

BSEC, CE, CEI, CIS (participating), EAPC, EBRD, ECE, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICRM, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, Inmarsat, Intelsat (nonsignatory user), Interpol, IOC, IOM (observer), ISO, ITU, NAM (observer), NSG, OAS (observer), OPCW, OSCE, PCA, PFP, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UNMIBH, UNMIK, UNMOP, UNMOT, UPU, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WToO, WTrO, Zangger Committee

See also

• List of Ukrainian politicians
• Declaration of Independence
• Proclamation of Independence
• Corruption in Ukraine
• Cassette Scandal
• Ukraine without Kuchma
• Orange Revolution
• Russia-Ukraine gas dispute
• Universal of National Unity
• 2007 Ukrainian political crisis
• NATO-Ukrainian relations
• Ukrainian nationalism

Center for Adaptation of Civil Service to the Standards of EU - public institution established by the Decree of Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine to facilitate administrative reform in Ukraine and to enhance the adaptation of the civil service to the standards of the European Union.

External links

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References

Elections and referendums in Ukraine
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Parliamentary elections	1918 1937 1939 1947 1951 1955 1959 1963 1967 1971 1975 1980 1985 1990 1994 1998 2002 2006 2007 2012 2014 2019
Local elections	1939 West Ukraine Carpatho-Ukraine 1990 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 2015
Referendums	1991 (Mar) 1991 (Dec) 2000
See also: Elections and referendums in Crimea

Verkhovna Rada
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Members	Ukraine 1st members, 1990–94 2nd members, 1994–98 3rd members, 1998–2002 4th members, 2002–06 5th members, 2006–07 6th members, 2007–12 7th members, 2012–14 8th members, 2014–19 Ukainian SSR 1st members, 1938–1947 2nd members, 1947–1951 3rd members, 1951–1955 4th members, 1955–1959 5th members, 1959–1963 6th members, 1963–1967 7th members, 1967–1971 8th members, 1971–1975 9th members, 1975–1980 10th members, 1980–1985 11th members, 1985–1990
List of chairmen	Ukraine Ivan Plyushch Oleksandr Moroz Oleksandr Tkachenko Ivan Plyushch Volodymyr Lytvyn Oleksandr Moroz Arseniy Yatsenyuk Oleksandr Lavrynovych (acting) Volodymyr Lytvyn Volodymyr Rybak Oleksandr Turchynov Volodymyr Groysman Andriy Parubiy Ukrainian SSR Mykhailo Burmystenko Oleksandr Korniychuk Pavlo Tychyna Oleksandr Korniychuk Mykhailo Bilyi Kostiantyn Sytnyk Platon Kostiuk Volodymyr Ivashko Leonid Kravchuk Presidium Leonid Korniets Mykhailo Hrechukha Demyan Korotchenko Oleksandr Lyashko Ivan Hrushetsky Oleksiy Vatchenko Valentyna Shevchenko Volodymyr Ivashko Leonid Kravchuk Ivan Plyushch Oleksandr Moroz
Historic predecessors	Central Council of Ukraine All-Ukrainian Congress of Soviets Central Executive Committee of Ukraine Ukrainian Constituent Assembly never realized) Labor Congress of Ukraine Soim Carpatho-Ukraine Ukrainian National Council Council of Republic
See also	Politics of Ukraine Political parties in Ukraine Elections in Ukraine