Posted on 04/19/2016 12:00:47 PM PDT by No One Special
Volodymyr Groysman served as mayor of Vinnytsia where he doubled the city's budget in three years before becoming the first openly Jewish speaker of the Ukrainian Parliament.
The Jewish speaker of the Ukrainian parliament, Volodymyr Groysman, has been elected prime minister after a months-long political crisis.
The parliament on Thursday voted 250-57 for Groysman, who was nominated by President Petro Poroshenko.
The outgoing prime minister, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, resigned earlier this week after weeks of pressure for him to step down. He had survived a no-confidence vote in February.
Groysman has been perceived as a conciliatory figure after the governing coalition refused to support U.S.-born Finance Minister Natalie Jaresko, who has been lauded as a West-friendly reformist untainted by cronyism and corruption.
Speaking ahead of the vote, Groysman said his government was committed to tackling graft and strengthening ties with the European Union."I understand the threats that face us. In particular I would like to highlight three threats - corruption, ineffective governance and populism, which do not pose less of a threat than the enemy in eastern Ukraine," he said, referring to a pro-Russian separatist rising."I will show you what leading a country really means," he added.
Groysman is a former mayor of the city of Vinnytsia, and was an active member of the local Jewish community.
'A man of action'
Groysman’s Jewishness is not very unusual, even for a mayor and senior politician in Ukraine, where 360,000 Jews live. But his openness about it was not customary in a country where anti-Semitism and decades of Communist repression once made it undesirable for politicians to be seen as too Jewish, said the local rabbi, Shaul Horowitz.
Last year, his reputation as an honest and effective administrator earned Groysman the title of speaker of the Ukrainian parliament before Thursday's vote that made...
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Wow. I never would have expected that.
No one was expecting the Spanish Inquisition either.
Mazel Tov
Putin and Obambi will not be please: expect a Russian invasion!
Their chief weapon is fear and surprise.
Oops. Start over.
I find it heartening at face value. know nothing about the man.
If you'd like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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It won’t faze RT propaganda one bit.
They already characterize Ukraine as a neo-nazi state... which is also controlled by jews.
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