On 16 February 2016, President Petro Poroshenko asked Yatsenyuk to resign and later on the same day, the Ukrainian parliament voted to find the work the Ukrainian cabinet was doing under Yatsenyuk unsatisfactory, but rejected calls for a vote of no confidence.
On February 16, 2016, President Petro Poroshenko urged Yatsenyuk to resign. That same day, the Ukrainian parliament deemed the cabinet led by Yatsenyuk ineffective but declined to conduct a vote of no confidence.