KIEV

Members of the Ukrainian parliament have voted in its chairman, Volodymyr Groysman, as the country’s new prime minister.

Thirty-nine-year-old Groysman won the support of 257 deputies in parliament on Thursday, reported an Anadolu Agency correspondent in Kiev.

After outgoing PM Arseniy Yatsenyuk's resignation last weekend, President Petro Poroshenko’s bloc and the People's Front coalition was established.

Both parties agreed that Groysman's candidacy was to be put to a vote in parliament.

Groysman was born on Jan. 20, 1978 in Vinnytsia, west-central Ukraine. Having studied law and public administration, at 24 Groysman became the youngest member of Vinnytsia city council.

He was elected mayor in 2006 and 2010. In 2014, Groysman became deputy prime minister.

Groysman stepped in as prime minister for a short while after Arseniy Yatsenyuk resigned on July 24, 2014.