KIEV — Arseniy Yatsenyuk, the prime minister of Ukraine, received another lease of political life Tuesday when the country’s parliament rejected a no-confidence motion that would have seen him and his cabinet removed from office.
Supporters of the motion fell well short of the 226 votes needed to remove the government, with 194 voting to kick out Yatsenyuk. MPs did, however, vote to declare the government’s work “unsatisfactory.”
On Tuesday, Yatsenyuk presented parliament with a progress report on his government’s work during the previous year. His opponents seized on this as an opportunity to call for a no-confidence vote, hoping that dismissal …read more
Source: European Voice
