KIEV (Sputnik) — The current chairman of Ukraine's Verkhovna Rada, Volodymyr Groysman, is expected to take up the post of Ukrainian prime minister, local media cited a source as saying on Tuesday.
"The main and only contender for the post of Prime Minister today is Volodymyr Groysman," a source said, as quoted by the LB.ua news outlet.
Ukraine’s parliament is currently in crisis, threatened by the de-facto collapse of its ruling coalition. On February 15, the parliamentary faction aligned to Poroshenko – the Petro Poroshenko Bloc – described the cabinet’s work in 2015 as unsatisfactory.
The following day, Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk’s government survived a no-confidence vote, which provoked various factions to leave the ruling parliamentary coalition. Another vote of no-confidence cannot be held until the next parliamentary session, scheduled to open on September 6.
The Ukrainian Constitution stipulates that the president can dismiss the parliament and hold snap elections if no ruling coalition is formed within 30 days.
