Finance Minister Viktor Pynzenyk has been re-elected as head of the "Reforms and Order" party.
The corresponding decision was voted for by the majority of participants at the party congress held on Saturday in Kyiv. Of the 378 participants, only 5 abstained from voting, while the others voted "for."
Before that, one of the congress participants asked Pynzenyk to explain whether he intends to remain in the government in the future and whether it would not be better for him to leave, so as not to end up there again in a few months.
To this, Pynzenyk replied that positions had never been his goal, and recalled that when he joined the government with the new authorities, he asked what God was punishing him for.
"I know what situation the budget was in when we adopted it and what state it is in now. We have not had a deficit for the second month. I do not want the new government to have the same problems that we had. I am at peace about my professional work and I think you should be at peace about me," he said.
Pynzenyk thanked his fellow party members for his re-election, noting that he finds it "pleasant to work in the party of beekeepers."
Also elected to the party leadership were Ihor Hryniv, Volodymyr Bondarenko, Serhiy Sobolev, Taras Stetskiv, and Serhiy Teriokhin. Oleksandr Zhyr was re-elected as head of the party's control and audit commission.