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Ukraine crisis: PM Yatsenyuk survives no-confidence vote | |
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Ukraine's parliament has rejected a no-confidence vote in Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk. | Ukraine's parliament has rejected a no-confidence vote in Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk. |
The decision came moments after lawmakers voted the cabinet's work unsatisfactory. | The decision came moments after lawmakers voted the cabinet's work unsatisfactory. |
Earlier, President Petro Poroshenko had asked Mr Yatsenyuk to resign, saying that he had lost the support of the coalition. | |
Mr Yatsenyuk's government has been criticised over the economy and faces allegations of corruption. | |
Some 194 out of 339 MPs voted in support of the no-confidence motion - at least 226 votes were needed for it to be passed. | |
In a speech earlier during a report that reviewed the government's performance in 2015, the prime minister said his cabinet had done all it could under difficult circumstances. | |
Mr Yatsenyuk came to power in 2014, after the massive protests that removed former pro-Russia President Viktor Yanukovych. | |
Mr Yatsenyuk promised to tackle corruption and implement economic reforms in the former Soviet state, but has become the focus of accusations of corruption, even though no concrete evidence has emerged. |