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Who took the top posts in Ukraine's new parliament?
Summary
A look back at the appointments made at the first sitting of the ninth Verkhovna Rada on 29 August 2019.
What did Ukraine's new leadership line-up look like as the week began on 2 September 2019? It had been set a few days earlier, on 29 August 2019, when the ninth Verkhovna Rada held its first sitting.
At that sitting, deputies chose Dmytro Razumkov as head of the Rada. Oleksiy Honcharuk was named Prime Minister of Ukraine. Ivan Bakanov was named head of the Security Service of Ukraine, the SBU.
Taken together, the decisions filled three of the most prominent posts in the country's political system at the start of the new parliament's term. The Rada chair, the head of government and the head of the security service were all settled at a single sitting.
For international readers, the date matters because it marks the opening of the ninth convocation. The names chosen on 29 August 2019 were the ones that defined the start of the new parliament's work in the days that followed, including 2 September 2019.
