The appointment may disappoint the European Commission, which like the United States and the International Monetary Fund, has tied aid to Ukraine to Kiev`s performance on corruption. Brussels had urged Poroshenko to appoint someone seen as independent who had a legal background.
Poroshenko squeezed out the previous top prosecutor, Viktor Shokhin, on whose watch the general prosecutor`s office was widely criticized for hampering anti-corruption reforms.
Opposition lawmakers shouted "shame on you" before the vote took place.
"Lutsenko will definitely be a better prosecutor than Shokhin," Leonid Kozachenko, a lawmaker from Poroshenko`s faction, told.
"I think that there will be some kind of conflict, a lack of understanding between the EU and Ukraine. But I hope that this conflict will disappear when Lutsenko begins real investigations."
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