The PM’s offer to relinquish his position came after he was caught on tape criticizing President Zelenskiy. The Ukrainian president later said he would give Honchurak a second chance.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy rejected the resignation of Prime Minister Oleksiy Honcharuk on Friday.
An audio recording emerged earlier this week that appeared to show Honcharuk question Zelenskiy’s ability to manage the economy.
“I came to the position of fulfilling the program of the president. He is for me a model of openness and decency,” Honcharuk said on Facebook.
“However, in order to take away any doubts about our respect and trust in the president, I wrote a letter of resignation and handed it to the president with the right to submit it to Parliament,” he added.
The former lawyer and deputy head of the prime minister’s office became Ukraine’s youngest ever head of government at the age of 35 when he took on the role in August of last year.
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The Opposition Bloc are not going to be happy.
People should be less concerned for some off the cuff remarks made in privet and more with the intentions of the ones who made the recording. All it is doing is undermining the government and dividing the majority party in the rada
This has FSB or similar organization written all over it and should be treated as such.