Ukraine's parliament on Wednesday approved Denys Shmygal as the new prime minister after his predecessor resigned, caught out by a leaked recording of him criticising the president. The majority of lawmakers voted to back President Volodymyr Zelensky's nominee Shmygal, who previously held the post of deputy prime minister in charge of regional development.
Earlier in the day parliament approved the resignation of Oleksiy Goncharuk after he spent only six months on the job. Goncharuk had offered to resign on Tuesday, in his second attempt to quit after a leaked recording emerged in January of him questioning President Volodymyr Zelensky's grasp of economics.
Presenting Shmygal to lawmakers ahead of the vote, Zelensky said he hoped that "we will finally have a government for people". Shmygal vowed to address economic and social issues in a country still locked in a conflict with separatists in the east.
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