KIEV (Sputnik) — On Sunday, Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk announced his resignation starting April 12 amid the ongoing parliamentary crisis in the country.
"The candidate for the prime minister's post and the makeup of the government have been agreed on," Lutsenko wrote on his Facebook page.
The Ukraine political crisis escalated in February, after the parliamentary faction aligned to Ukraine's president – the Petro Poroshenko Bloc – described the cabinet’s work in 2015 as unsatisfactory. The following day, Yatsenyuk’s government survived a no-confidence vote, which forced various factions to leave the ruling parliamentary coalition.
The Petro Poroshenko Bloc had previously nominated speaker of the Ukrainian parliament Volodymyr Groysman for the post of Prime Minister.
