Abromavicius calls on government to appoint heads of state companies selected at tenders

"The work of the new government is to approve these new managers on the posts as quickly as possible. It will prove a litmus test for the [government's] focus on reforms and a chance for the new prime minister to show his desire to remove corruption from state-run companies," he said in a statement posted on the official website of the ministry on Friday. Earlier the tender panel proposed that the government appoints former head of Polish railway company PKP Cargo Wojciech Balczun as head of Ukrzaliznytsia, French and Mexican citizen Jean-André Barbosa as head of Electrotyazhmash (Kharkiv), Director of KPMG US audit company Igor Smelyansky as head of Ukrposhta and Yuriy Solonchuk as director of Boryspil International Airport. The tenders to select heads of Ukrspyrt, Centrenergo and Ukrenergo are underway.