Ukraine’s prime minister ousted as President Zelensky seeks ‘new brains’
KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian lawmakers overwhelmingly voted Wednesday to accept the resignation of the nation’s prime minister after a six-month tenure in which his performance came under severe criticism from President Volodymyr Zelensky.
The president’s Servant of the People party dominates the Ukrainian parliament and took the lead in relieving Oleksiy Honcharuk of his post. Forty lawmakers abstained from the vote but the message of the 353-0 tally was clear. Lawmakers later approved Deputy Prime Minister Denys Shmygal to be the new prime minister. Addressing lawmakers before the resignation vote, Zelensky said Honcharuk, 35, failed to halt an industrial slump or meet tax collection targets.
“We need new brains and new hearts in the government,” the president said.
Shmygal, 44, who was named deputy prime minister last month, previously served as head of the regional administration in Ukraine’s western Ivano-Frankivsk region. “The citizens’ expectations are enormous and their patience is running out,” he told lawmakers, adding: “We need results today.” Honcharuk first offered his resignation in January after he was caught on tape saying Zelensky — a former sitcom star with no previous political experience — knew nothing about the economy.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/ukraines-prime-minister-ousted-as-president-zelensky-seeks-new-brains/
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