Stable uncertainty witnessed around the appointment Valeriya Gontareva’s successor to the post of the National Bank’s Governor while an acting head remains at the helm has already become a bad habit a bad tradition for Ukraine, said a Ukrainian political analyst and head of the Penta Center for Applied Political Research, Volodymyr Fesenko.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko is set to propose a new central bank governor this week, filling a position that's been vacant since May as the government struggles to get its $17.5 billion bailout back on track with the International Monetary Fund, according to Bloomberg.
Ukrainian presidential envoy in parliament Iryna Lutsenko says that President Petro Poroshenko is expected to nominate a new candidate for the Central Bank's head by the end of September for consideration by Members of Parliament, according to TV Channel 5.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has chosen a new central bank governor on the recommendation of the incumbent governor, Valeriya Gontareva, who proposed the candidacy of the head of a Ukrainian bank with Austrian capital, according to a Ukrainian news outlet.