The Rada has accepted the resignation of Arsen Yatsenyuk as speaker, but a new speaker has not been selected to replace him. The vote to took place yesterday and was strongly supported by Regions, Communists, and Bloc Lytvyn. However, some members from OU-SD also voted for the dismissal. With his dismissal, speculation now mounts on who will be a new speaker, especially with the status of the Rada still unclear. Kyiv Post reports that the president will not hold a new election this year.
After the vote Yatsenyuk, 34, said he was forced to resign for being too “independent as a speaker,” Ukrainian News reported. OUPSD legislator Ihor Kril, an ally of Viktor Baloha, the head of the presidential secretariat, accused his fellow faction member Yatsenyuk of populism and failing to “organize productive work of the lawmaking body. Only one anti-crisis draft law – that’s the result of an entire month’s of work in parliament,” Kril.
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