Confusion after Ukraine's PM quits
July 25, 2014 21:13
Ukraine's political circus made an unwelcome return to centre stage as bickering lawmakers struggled today to avert a crisis of their own making after Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk resigned in a huff.
As the country battles a bloody pro-Russian insurgency in the east amid international attention over the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 and teeters on the brink of bankruptcy, analysts said the last thing Ukraine needed was a bout of political limbo.
But that's exactly what the politicians seem to have landed themselves in after Yatsenyuk dramatically quit yesterday in protest at the collapse of the ruling European Choice coalition, a move that paved the way for long-awaited parliamentary polls to be announced.
"It is wrong in a situation of war to do such a thing," political analyst Volodymyr Fesenko told Interfax Ukraine news agency. "Any crack in our unity will be exploited by Russia."
President Petro Poroshenko today asked lawmakers to pass a vote of confidence in the government.
"I hope that the strong emotions will calm down and be trumped by cold reason and a sense of responsibility and that the entire Ukrainian cabinet will continue its work," Poroshenko said.
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