The entire Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine will resign, if the Parliament takes the decision, said Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk during the session of the Verkhovna Rada today, Joinfo.ua reports.
“We all came as one team, and we wPrime Minister of Ukraine agreed to resign with the entire CabinetPrime Minister of Ukraine agreed to resign with the entire Cabinetill continue to work as a team. And if it is decided that the command should be changed, we will go all together, but we will fight to the last … We will fight for the country. If you do not want to fight, then flee from the battlefield, and we are going to do our job, “- said Yatseniuk.
“I came into office, knowing all the consequences for myself. It was me to take the decision to change [utility] tariffs. I have decided, as a politician in the first place, together with our team, to change the social policy and the system. I took all the unpopular decisions, which none of the prime ministers for 20 years did “, – he explained his unpopularity.
Mustafa Nyyem, MP from the pro-president political party Bloc of Petro Poroshenko, in turn, accused Arseniy Yatsenyuk of holding the entire Parliament as hostages.
“The question to you is very simple: you have said that you will fight for Ukraine, but in fact you are … fighting for your position, you are fighting for staying in the Cabinet, you have made a whole country a hostage of your own ambitions,” – Nayyem said.