Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Tuesday urged Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk to resign in the face of the government's perceived failure to fight endemic corruption and overcome its deep economic crisis.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Tuesday urged Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk to resign in the face of the government's perceived failure to fight endemic corruption and overcome its deep economic crisis.
According to Yahoo News, Poroshenko's dramatic intervention came as opinion polls showed growing public disenchantment with the pro-Western team that took over the leadership of the former Soviet nation after the 2014 revolt.
Yatsenyuk said he would accept any decision made by parlament. "But regardless what is decided, I ask parliament, the president and the responsible political classes to move further along the path of reforms," Ukranian PM added.
Meanwhile, there have gathered demonstrations for protests in 10 Ukrainian cities to demand resignation of Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk. TASS reports demonstrations are being held in Kharkiv, Lviv, Dnipropetrovsk, Odessa, Poltava, Khmelnitsky, Ivano-Frankivsk, Zhytomyr, Ternopol and Lutsk. Protesters are waving flags of "Svoboda" (Freedom) nationalist party and banners saying: "Marauder premier - to tribunal," "Marauder premier should go," "Yatsenyuk’s government — puppet of oligarchs."
However, Arseniy Yatseniuk, via Interfax, did not say that he is going to resign, when addressing the Verkhovna Rada, the Ukrainian parliament, with a report of the government's work in 2015.
