Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk has survived a parliamentary vote to sack him despite a harrowing assessment from the country’s President Petro Poroshenko and parliamentarians on Tuesday.
Out of a majority of 226 parliamentarians required, only 194 voted against Yatsenyuk, as Mustafa Nayem from Poroshenko’s BPP party reported that all members of the Opposition Bloc party had left the Ukrainian parliament (Verkhovna Rada) before the vote.
Yatsenyuk became prime minister in 2014 after his Popular Front (Narodniy Front) party won 81 seats, finishing behind Poroshenko’s party. The two parties formed a pro-European government with three other smaller formations, as pro-Russian forces …read more
Source: Newsweek
