Ukraine's parliament on Tuesday rejected a no-confidence motion against the government led by Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, the parliament's press service said.
The result helped avoid the immediate prospect of a snap election in a country grappling with an economic recession as well as tensions in eastern areas.
The bill, put forward by the ruling Solidarity Party, only won backing from 194 lawmakers with a required minimum to pass of 226 votes, said a statement on the parliament's website.
The vote came hours after Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko asked Yatsenyuk and the country's Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin to resign amid lack of public confidence.
In his address to the nation, Poroshenko emphasized the necessity of carrying out a "complete reshuffle" of the Ukrainian cabinet to allow it to continue functioning in a proper way.
The president said a total reformatting of the government should take place on the basis of the current ruling coalition comprising the Solidarity, People's Front, Samopomich and Fatherland political parties.
Apart from the Solidarity Party, Tuesday's vote gained support from the Samopomich and Fatherland political parties, as well as from the Radical party, while the majority of lawmakers from other political forces voted against the bill, the statement said.
While requesting the lawmakers to prepare the vote earlier this month, Yatsenyuk said that his entire government, which came to power in Dec. 2014, is ready to resign if parliament decides to lay off at least one of the ministers.
In accordance with Ukrainian law, only one confidence motion can be put to vote during the parliamentary session, which means that the current cabinet cannot be disbanded by the parliament at least until September. More on:
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