Ukraine parliament votes to appoint presidential ally as new prosecutor general


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  • Tuesday, 17 Mar 2020

KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine's parliament on Tuesday voted to appoint Iryna Venediktova, a 41-year-old lawyer and close ally of President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, as the country's new Prosecutor General.

Venediktova was a lawmaker in Zelenskiy's Servant of the People party and the acting head of the state investigation bureau. Her predecessor Ruslan Ryaboshapka was sacked earlier in March in a sweeping reshuffle that raised questions about the country's reform momentum.

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