18.39 Interfax-Ukraine: At an extraordinary plenary session on Thursday, the Supreme Council of Crimea passed a motion of no confidence in the Council of Ministers of Crimea and terminated its powers, a spokesperson for the secretariat of the Crimean parliament Olha Sulnikova has said.
According to her, this decision was supported by 55 of the 64 members of the Crimean parliament.
According to the adopted resolution, the Supreme Council of Crimea declared the work of the Council of Ministers of Crimea in 2013 unsatisfactory and therefore passed a motion of no-confidence in the Crimean government.
Under the same decision, the Crimean parliament terminated the powers of the Council of Ministers of Crimea.
In addition, the parliament dismissed Anatoliy Mohyliov as the chairman of the Crimean Council of Ministers pursuant to Article 136 of the Constitution of Ukraine.
The document takes effect on the day on which it is passed.
17.32 Interfax-Ukraine: Crimean Prime Minister Anatoliy Mohyliov will be removed from office and a coalition government will be formed shortly, according to Batkivschyna MP former head of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatars Mustafa Jemilev.
When speaking from the stage of Maidan in Kyiv on Wednesday, he said that the Crimean people had managed to prevent the Crimean Supreme Council from adopting a declaration about the republic joining Russia.
“As a result, [Crimean Parliament Speaker] Volodymyr Konstantynov refused to adopt such a declaration, on the contrary – a declaration that Crimea is an indivisible part of Ukraine and we aren’t going anywhere was prepared. They don’t want to join Russia now, and that is very good,” he said.
According to Jemilev, the next step is the resignation of Mohyliov.