“Among the candidates are Ministers Denys Shmyhal, Mykhailo Fedorov, Head of the State Government Kyrylo Budanov, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Serhiy Kyslytsia, and Deputy Head of the OPU Pavlo Palisa”, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
“I held consultations… I have options – Minister Shmyhal or Minister Fedorov, but there is a challenge here – because the Rada must remove them before appointing… The office of the president is important, but there are other institutions as well. Who can replace Fedorov – I don’t know… maybe Mykhailo will find an alternative for himself. It is more difficult with the Ministry of Defense, because the entire budget is the same, the responsibility is there, the army is there. Today, this is the number one priority,” he told reporters.
According to him, among the candidates are Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Serhiy Kyslytsia and Deputy Head of the OPU Pavlo Palisa.
“Budanov is in charge of intelligence, an important direction. He can be the head of the Office just like each of these candidates… We need to understand who will be in his place in the GUR,” Zelenskyy added.
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Earlier on December 4, People’s Deputy from “Servant of the People” Bohdan Kitsak said on Radio Svoboda that, according to his information, the most likely candidate for the position of head of the President’s Office is Minister of Digital Transformation Mykhailo Fedorov.
On November 28, it became known that the head of the President’s Office had been searched. Andrii Yermak commented on the searches, saying that “the investigators have no obstacles.” There was no official information about the case in which the searches took place and the status of the head of the President’s Office. According to mass media, Yermak is not under the status of a suspect.
Later, on the same day, the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyi, announced that the head of his Office, Andriy Yermak, had written a resignation letter. The head of state thanked Yermak for presenting the Ukrainian position at the negotiations, but expressed his desire “that there should be no rumors and speculations.”