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 requested Yatsenyuk to step down. The same day, Ukraine's parliament decided that the cabinet under Yatsenyuk was unsatisfactory and did not approve a vote of no confidence.