Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk is not planning to leave office, leader of the Batkivshchyna (Fatherland) faction in the parliament and former premier Yulia Tymoshenko said on Tuesday. “I think that they are playing for time, the authorities practically leave Yatsenyuk in office and amid that the country is deceived by some new names of the next prime minister,” Tymoshenko told the 112 Ukraine TV channel. “I can say with competence that Yatsenyuk is not going to tender resignation today,” she said, adding that “everything has been already paid so that this government stays.” “Yatsenyuk is trying to remain in the premier’s seat by all means.”
Ukraine’s news outlet Apostrof said on Monday citing well-informed sources that Yatsenyuk has agreed to step down on condition that his party, People’s Front, retains to ministerial posts, with Arsen Avakov and Pavlo Petrenko continuing as interior and justice ministers, respectively.
Apart from that, according to Apostrof, the People’s Front wants to have its speaker in the Verkhovna Rada (parliament). So far, the candidate for the latter position has not yet been named as this issue is being discussed. Possible candidates are Andrei Parubiy, the current first deputy speaker, and Maxim Burbak, the leader of the People’s Front faction.
According to the source, Yatsenyuk plans to announce his resignation at a government meeting on Wednesday. On the same day, the prop-presidential force, the Petro Poroshenko Bloc, plans to hold a congress which is expected to support the candidature of Verkhovna Rada speaker Volodymyr Groysman as Ukraine’s next prime minister. Parliament voting on that matter is planned for March 24.
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Factions in the Ukrainian parliament are ready to support the candidature of speaker Volodymyr Groysman as Ukraine’s next prime minister, Ukrainian news outlet Apostrof said on Monday citing well-informed sources.
“The factions of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc, People’s Front, Oleh Lyashko’s Radical Party and the lawmaker group Vozrozhdeniye (Revival) are expected to vote in support of Volodymyr Groysman’s candidacy for prime minister. The factions have already reached relevant agreements,” the news outlet said.
According to the sources, there is no alternative to Groysman’s candidacy as another possible candidate, Finance Minister Natalie Jaresko, will not be able to win the necessary number of votes.
Leader of the pro-presidential Petro Poroshenko Bloc faction in Ukraine’s parliament Yuri Lutsenko said on Sunday he hopes the parliament will hold an extraordinary session on March 24 to send the Arseniy Yatsenyuk government to resignation. “I hope next week, probably on Thursday (March 24), we will be able to hold an extraordinary session to vote for a new prime minister, a new government and a new program of actions and finally put an end to the profound crisis stemming from the inaction of the current government,” he wrote on his Facebook account.
He ruled out a third office term for the current prime minister, Arseniy Yatsenyuk. “After the latest consultation I rule out the possibility of Yatsenyuk’s continuing as prime minister for a third year. I think both he and the People’s Front faction have realized that the government is actually dysfunctional. And the latest consultations focused only on the format of the next government,” Lutsenko noted.
On February 16, Ukraine’s parliament recognized the work of Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk’s government as unsatisfactory but failed to send him to resignation as it lacked votes for that. These developments have provoked a political crisis in the country
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