The modern Ukrainian
presidency was formed when
the Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian
Soviet Socialist Republic passed
a law on 5 July 1991 establishing the office of the "President of the
Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic." Upon the proclamation of Ukrainian independence from the Soviet Union on 24 August 1991, the title was changed to the
"President of Ukraine." The first election of
the President of Ukraine was contested on 1 December 1991, which was won by Leonid Kravchuk.
All five presidents have been people's
deputies of
the Verkhovna Rada prior to their election. Kravchuk was the first president to
have resigned from the office, following a power struggle between him and Prime
Minister Leonid Kuchma. After the 2014
Ukrainian revolution, Viktor Yanukovych abandoned his office and fled the country. He was
subsequently impeached, and replaced with Oleksandr Turchynov as the Chairman of
the Verkhovna Rada, who
takes on as acting president when the office is vacant. Early presidential elections were contested on 25 May 2014, which were won by Petro Poroshenko; Poroshenko was inaugurated as the fifth president on 7 June 2014. On 18 June 2015
Yanukovych was officially deprived of the title of President of Ukraine.
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