KIEV, Sept. 3 - An electronic petition has been registered on the official website of Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko that demands the appointment of the head of Odessa region, Mikheil Saakashvili, as prime minister.

The appropriate electronic petition was submitted on September 3 and was registered under No 22/002010-ep. The petition's author is Yuriy Volodymyrovych Nataluha.

The collection of signatures started on Thursday and on the first day so far, the petition has been signed by 283 people out of the 25,000 required to sign it. The signatures' collection must be completed in 91 days.