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*Political System*





__Governing Body & Officials__:
The government of Ukraine is a Republic. That means that the people have the supreme control of the government. It also means that the head of the government is not a monarch. The government here is broken into three branches: the executive branch, the judicial branch, and the legislative branch.

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 * Executive Branch **
 * Chief of State/ President: elected for a term lasting five years. Presently, it is Viktor Yanukovych.
 * Head of government: includes the Prime Minister, the First Deputy Prime Minister, and three Deputy Prime Ministers. The present Prime Minister is Mykola Azarov.
 * Cabinet: The cabinet of ministers is selected by the Prime Minister. There are also the foreign and defence ministers who are chosen by the president.
 * Judicial Branch **
 * Supreme Court
 * Constitutional Court
 * Legislative Branch **
 * The Parliament is called the Rada
 * There are 450 seats
 * The members are allocated on a proportional basis to those parties that gain 3% or more of the national electoral vote
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Each members serves a five-year term

<span style="color: #00ffff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">__People's Role & Influence__:
<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">The people are broken into 24 oblasts depending on their location within Ukraine. Each oblast has a proportional seat in the Rada. The people of Ukraine are in many different political parties. The parties are: The Green party, Republican party, Democratic party, Peasant-Democratic party, Christian-Democratic party, and Socialist party. These parties tend to have small memberships, numbering only several thousand each. The small parties demonstrate the legacy of an anti-party feeling from decades of Communist rule. ([|Ukraine Trek]) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">


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