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Front runner in the presidential elections in Ukraine Petro Poroshenko pledges to nominate candidates for defense and foreign ministers, a prosecutor general, and a security service chief right after the president's inauguration.

“Petro Poroshenko will name candidates for defense and foreign
ministers, a chief of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) right after
the president’s inauguration,” he said in the early hours of May 26.

He also said that the president is also authorized to nominate a prosecutor general.