Iryna Akimova member of political party Party of Regions
Political career
Since October 2007 Akimova has been a member of the Party of Regions. In November 2007 she was elected the Member of Parliament – No. 63 on the list. Akimova then worked as Deputy Head of the Committee in Verkhovna Rada on economic policy issues and took the position of Economy Minister in the opposition government of Viktor Yanukovych. Akimova is a frequent guest at political talk shows and is the public figure in the Party of Regions.
On February 25, 2010, Akimova was appointed the First Deputy Head of Presidential Administration. On March 16, 2010, she was appointed the Representative of the President of Ukraine in the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.After Andriy Klyuyev had left the post in mid-February 2012 Akimova was tipped as the new First Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine.
But Valeriy Khoroshkovskyi was appointed instead.In October 2012 Akimova was re-elected into the Ukrainian parliament on the party list of the Party of Regions, but she turned down this mandate.In late January 2014, by decrees of President Yanukovych Akimova was dismissed from the post of first deputy head of the Presidential Administration and appointed advisor to the President. In February 2014 Yanukovych was ousted from power. In an April 2014 interview, she stated that she no longer is a member of the Party of Regions.
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