First Yatsenyuk government

First Yatsenyuk government
17th Cabinet of Ukraine (since 1990)
Date formed	27 February 2014
Date dissolved	27 November 2014
People and organisations
Head of state	Oleksandr Turchynov (acting) Petro Poroshenko
Head of government	Arseniy Yatsenyuk
Deputy head of government	Oleksandr Sych Volodymyr Groysman
No. of ministers	20
Member party	Batkivshchyna Svoboda
Status in legislature	Coalition
Opposition party	Party of Regions Communist Party of Ukraine
Opposition leader	Oleksandr Yefremov Petro Symonenko
History
Predecessor	Second Azarov government
Successor	Second Yatsenyuk government

The first government headed by Arseniy Yatsenyuk was created in Ukraine on 27 February 2014 in the aftermath of the Revolution of Dignity.^[1] The cabinet was formed as a coalition of the Batkivschyna, UDAR and Svoboda political parties, the Economic Development and Sovereign European Ukraine parliamentary factions, and a number of unaffiliated MPs.^[1] On 24 July 2014, UDAR, Svoboda and 19 independent MPs exited the coalition to pave the way for the early parliamentary elections of late October 2014.^[1] Prime Minister Yatsenyuk announced his resignation the same day,^[2] but the Verkhovna Rada declined his resignation on 31 July 2014.^[3]

After the 26 October 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election, the second Yatsenyuk government was formed.