Groysman wants to see Shymkiv, Klympush-Tsintsadze in his Cabinet if elected PM

Parliament Speaker Volodymyr Groysman would like to see Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration Dmytro Shymkiv and MP from the Petro Poroshenko Bloc, Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze in his Cabinet should he be nominated as a candidate for prime minister.

"It would be a pleasure for me to work with Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze and Dmytro Shymkiv. They are the people who have modern visions of the development of Ukraine, and the main thing is that they adhere to the unexceptional principles and our strategic goal – European integration," he said at a briefing in Kyiv on Monday.

If a new parliamentary coalition proposes that I should head the government, he said: "I can tell that I'll be ready to take the responsibility."

"The creation of the new coalition is a matter of days. If a solution is found, this could happen as early as this week," he said.

Klympush-Tsintsadze is member of some parliamentary delegations and groups of cooperation with NATO, the EU, the United States, Canada, India, Georgia. She is also member of the Ukrainian team of the Interparliamentary Assembly of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania, the Senate and Sejm of Poland. She is also first deputy of the parliamentary committee for foreign affairs.

Shymkiv works as a deputy of the Presidential Administration for administrative, social and economic reforms. He was in charge of e-administration. He served on the Board of the American Chamber of Commerce in Ukraine. Prior to his work as a government official, he headed Microsoft Ukraine.