The Ukrainian parliament has failed to dismiss Ukrainian Education and Science Minister Dmytro Tabachnyk.
A total of 202 MPs out of the 424 registered in the parliament’s session hall voted for a bill on Tabachnyk’s dismissal on Tuesday, with at least 226 votes required.
Our Ukraine-People’s Self-Defense (OU-PSD) MP Viacheslav Kyrylenko said before the vote that if the Verkhovna Rada failed to dismiss Tabachnyk, he would register in parliament a new bill on the minister’s dismissal.
"I will register a new bill today. We’ll do that until this man leaves Ukrainian education," he said.
Kyrylenko said that Tabachnyk’s actions were "counter-productive."
He forecast that if Tabachnyk were not dismissed, the faculty and students of educational institutions would stage protests.
"Such a Ukrainophobe minister should be dismissed immediately," Kyrylenko said.
He said that "corrupt schemes are resuming in the spheres of education" owing to Tabachnyk’s activities.
Regions Party MP Valeriy Bondyk, in turn, said that there was a constitutional way of dismissing the minister.
"There’s a constitutional way – go to the courts," he said.
