Names of candidates for positions in new government made public

Names of candidates for positions in new government made public

Head of Petro Poroshenko Bloc faction in the Verkhovna Rada Yuriy Lutsenko made public the names of candidates for positions in the new Cabinet. Interior Minister Arsen Avakov, Justice Minister Pavlo Petrenko, Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin, Defense Minister Stepan Poltorak and Information Policy Minister Yuri Stec will remain in their positions in the new government.

Theposition of deputy prime minister for ATO and the occupied territories will be established in the Cabinet which can be occupied by Volodymyr Kistion. Candidates for minister of economy and energy minister were not yet agreed, Yuri Lutsenko said.