The Ukrainian Prime Minister Nikolai Azarov has submitted his resignation before the special session of Parliament. He thus comes to a vote of no confidence before.

The Ukrainian Premier Mykola Azarov has given up his post on Tuesday. The report, among other Interfax and Itar-Tass. He thus comes to a vote of no confidence against the government in Parliament before.

He had “a personal decision” taken to allow for a “political compromise for a peaceful solution to the conflict,” the 66-year-old said in a statement on the website of the government. “I have made the personal decision to ask the President of Ukraine to accept my resignation from the post of prime minister of Ukraine.”

The Verkhovna Rada had begun with a half-hour delay Tuesday morning its special session, which was shortly thereafter interrupted for half an hour. Azarov’s resignation was one of the minimum requirements of the pro-European opposition to the politician and boxing champion Vitali Klitschko.

He said to Azarov’s retreat: “I am sure that the declaration of withdrawal only serves that Azarov can save face We have spoken many months, that what happens on the road is also the result of the current government work such withdrawal.. is not a victory, it is a step to victory, “quoted the news agency” Interfax “Klitschko.

The Parliament should inter alia, approve a motion of censure against Prime Minister Azarov. For a dismissal of the government 226 votes would be needed. The opposition factions to Vitali Klitschko and the Fatherland Party of imprisoned opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko come together with other forces to 168 deputies. In a previous attempt in December, the opposition had failed to the majority in Parliament.

Ukraine Protests:First concessions

Head of State Viktor Yanukovych had previously made concessions to his opponents and promised, among other things, a withdrawal of the right to demonstrate tighter. The laws adopted in the two weeks prior to rapid procedure to restrict freedom of association are to be redeemed at the special session of Parliament, as the presidency promised on Monday evening.

In addition, an amnesty for detained government opponents agreed. However, Yanukovich represents one condition: All activists need to withdraw from occupied government buildings and dismantle their barricades.

Ukraine Protests:Opposition rejects power-sharing

The opposition, which goes on the road for more than two months against the government calls Yanukovych’s resignation and early elections. On Saturday, the president offered a surprise to a power-sharing : opposition leader Arseniy Yatsenyuk of the Fatherland Party should therefore assume the office of the Prime Minister and boxing champion Vitali Klitschko will be his deputy. Both rejected the offer though.

The protests were triggered by the end of November the government’s decision not to sign a negotiated over the years with the EU association agreement and instead turn to stronger Russia.

In violent clashes , several people were killed in recent days : The opposition speaks of six , the government of three victims. The protests spread also increasingly from other parts of the country. In many provinces, the regional governments are now blocked by government opponents .

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