The leader of the Bloc of Petro Poroshenko (BPP) Yuriy Lutsenko has said that deputy head of president's administration Dmytro Shymkiv, who was proposed a post of deputy prime minister for reform issues in the new government, turned down the proposal.

"As far as I know, he refused to hold this post," Lutsenko told the journalists following the sitting of the BPP faction that discussed candidates for new government's membership.