Prime Minister of Ukraine resigned

the resignation letter written by a Ukrainian Prime Minister Alexey Goncharuk. A petition for his resignation Goncharuk has already submitted to the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky. Zelensky received the statement of Prime Minister Alexei Goncharuk, the resignation and will consider it. The Prime Minister’s resignation occurs on the background of the arisen scandal.

On the Youtube channel on 15 January and ended up with two recordings titled “How to deceive the President,” explains TASS. They were written before the meeting Goncharuk with Zelensky on 16 December 2019. Participants in informal communication in addition to became Prime Minister Goncharuk was the current head of the Ukrainian Ministry of Finance Oksana Makarova, head of the national Bank of Ukraine Yakov Smoliy and his Deputy Yekaterina Rozhkova, as well as the Deputy head of the office of the President Yulia Kovaliv.

there are recordings of voice Goncharuk asks the audience to help him explain to the President the economic processes, the relationship of the hryvnia and budget execution. He Goncharuk while recognising that the layman in the economy, and President Vladimir Zelensky “a very primitive understanding of economic processes”. Only the media can get 14 such sound recordings.

the Press service of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine said after that, he did not have information about the authenticity of the audio or video recordings that are distributed on the Internet. He Goncharuk fact of the publication of the audio recordings was considered the work of “many people” against the government. He was called on 16 January for a conversation in the President’s office.

On the website of the Ukrainian President was the text of e-petition with a demand to dismiss the Ukrainian Prime Minister in connection with the incompetent, undermine trust in state power and discredit her.

in resigning, Alexey Goncharuk explained that he wanted to remove any doubt as to the respect and confidence of the President.

“I came to office — to carry out the program of the President, — he wrote on his page in Facebook. — He is a model of openness and honesty. However, to drop the lubie doubt in our respect and trust to the President, I wrote a letter of resignation and handed it to the President with the right to make to Parliament”.

Alexey Goncharuk also listed all the achievements of the team of Vladimir Zelensky in the last four months: the team is doing everything so that Ukraine has changed. The Prime Minister gave Zelensky right to evaluate the effectiveness of their team members, because the Ukrainians have expressed unprecedented trust.