Ukrainian president asks PM who disparaged him to stay

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has rejected his prime minister’s offer to resign&comma; and asked him to stay on in the job&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Honcharuk submitted his resignation days after he was caught on tape saying Mr Zelenskiy knows nothing about the economy&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In a video released by Mr Zelenskiy’s office on Friday evening&comma; the president said he decided to &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;give a chance” to Mr Honcharuk and his Cabinet&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has rejected his prime minister’s offer to resign&comma; and asked him to stay on in the job&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Honcharuk submitted his resignation days after he was caught on tape saying Mr Zelenskiy knows nothing about the economy&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In a video released by Mr Zelenskiy’s office on Friday evening&comma; the president said he decided to &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;give a chance” to Mr Honcharuk and his Cabinet&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Ukraine’s president fears prompting a political crisis in the country by doing it and does not want to complicate his relationship with foreign investors and the International Monetary Fund&comma; said Volodymyr Sidenko&comma; an analyst with the Razumkov Centre think tank&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Honcharuk’s resignation can destroy the idea of the government’s unity and cast a doubt on Zelenskiy’s ability to control the situation&comma;”<&sol;em> Mr Sidenko said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Earlier this week&comma; an audio recording surfaced in which Mr Honcharuk appeared to make disparaging comments about Mr Zelenskiy’s understanding of economics&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He called Mr Zelenskiy &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;a layman” in economics and said the president should be better educated about the national currency&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Zelenskiy is a 41-year-old former comedian whose only political experience before his election last spring consisted of playing a Ukrainian president on TV&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He starred in Servant Of The People as a high school history teacher who is propelled to the highest office after his rant against government corruption goes viral&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Honcharuk said that the recording was a compilation of &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;fragments of recorded government meetings&comma;” and he blamed unidentified &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;influential groups” for making it look as if he did not respect the president&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;It is not true&comma;” the prime minister insisted&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-69e15d58f2541">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; 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