Vasyl Horbal | |
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Василь Горбаль | |
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| Governor of Lviv Oblast | |
| In office April 2010 – December 2010 | |
| Preceded by | Mykola Kmit |
| Succeeded by | Mykhailo Tsymbaliuk |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 18 March 1971 Lviv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union |
| Political party | Party of Regions |
| Alma mater | Kyiv University Academy of Internal Affairs |
Vasyl Mykhailovych Horbal (Ukrainian: Василь Михайлович Горбаль; born 18 March 1971) is a Ukrainian politician, former member of the Verkhovna Rada.
In 1993-2002 he worked for various banks in Kyiv and since 1996 as a director of Ukrgasbank.[1] In 2002-2010 Horbal was a member of Verkhovna Rada representing the Party of Regions.[1]
In 2008 he unsuccessfully ran for the mayor of Kyiv.
In April 2010 Horbal was appointed Governor of Lviv Oblast.[1] After being appointed as a governor Horbal was supposed to terminated his parliamentary duty, but instead even though he physically was in Lviv, his card voted on several issues in parliament including the so-called Kharkiv pact. After a secret ballot in which 66 deputies of the Lviv Oblast Council expressed their no-confidence in the Governor, President Viktor Yanukovych dismissed Horbal in December 2010.[1]
