Blue &Yellow: Politics and Economics in Ukraine

Update 1: Minister offers resignation,

Update 2: Rada sits and waits while the leadership decides how to deal with the current situation. 

Yuri Lutsenko, Interior Minister, has caused uproar after being held in a Frankfurt police station. The minister was drunk and kept at the station (located at Frankfurt airport) for half a day.  The president thinks that Lutsenko will resign, because of the fall out from this incident. Yuri Karmazin, MP from OU-PSD, commented that the Regions party will use the incident to its advantage. Not a surprise, though how will they benefit from this? It’s doubtful they can force early elections based solely on this incident. Perhaps they hope to have a say in Lutsenko's replacement if his resignation is accepted. 

This is not the first scandal to hit the minister; he got into a scuffle with Kyiv's mayor, Leonid Chernovetskiy.