MP Hryniv tapped to head Poroshenko Bloc parliamentary faction

18:45, 16.05.2016 1 min read

Member of Parliament Ihor Hryniv has unanimously been elected head of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc parliamentary faction, MP from the PPB faction Oleksiy Honcharenko has said.

"Ihor Hryniv has unanimously been elected as head of the PPB faction," he wrote on Facebook on Monday.

The same information was confirmed by MP Viktor Pynzenyk.

As was reported, Ukraine's parliament on May 12, 2016, voted to green-light President Petro Poroshenko's nominee Yuriy Lutsenko, who headed the BBP faction then, to the position of Prosecutor General of Ukraine.

Poroshenko signed Lutsenko's appointment shortly after the voting, after which the parliament stripped him of deputy immunity.

Hryniv, born in Lviv in 1961, is a Ukrainian politician, political strategist, parliamentarian for five terms. He is an executive director of Fund for Support of Economic Research (since 1994). He also heads the Serednioyevropeiske Agenstvo law firm (since 1996).