Parliament doesn’t approve appointment of Marchenko as finance minister
Ukrinform
The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine has not supported the appointment of Serhiy Marchenko as finance minister.
Only 223 MPs voted for his appointment at a special parliament’s meeting on March 30, with at least 226 votes needed to make the decision, an Ukrinform correspondent reported.
Serhiy Marchenko served as deputy finance minister in 2016-2018, and as deputy head of the Presidential Administration in 2018-2019. In the snap parliamentary elections on July 21, 2019, he ran seventh on Groysman’s Ukrainian Strategy party’s list.
Marchenko has the Candidate of Economic Sciences degree.
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