Yulia Tymoshenko faction walked out of the ruling coalition – RBC

Yulia Tymoshenko announced the release of its faction of the ruling coalition. We stayed in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine faction retained the majority, but early elections threat persists

The fraction of “Fatherland” decided to leave the parliamentary coalition and calls on all parliamentarians to follow suit, said the leader of the Yulia Tymoshenko on the sidelines of the parliament on Wednesday morning. It quoted “Interfax-Ukraine”. On Tuesday the faction “Fatherland” said that withdraws Youth and Sports Minister Igor Zhdanov from the government.

Tymoshenko against the government

The decision to withdraw from the coalition Tymoshenko after deputies did not vote for the dismissal Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, although recognized the unsatisfactory work of the cabinet. On Tuesday evening, “for” resignation of the government voted 194 deputies needed at 226. In “Batkivschne” resigned support 15 of the 19 members.

«Fatherland” in late 2014 on the results of early parliamentary elections became a pro-European ruling coalition. The coalition also included the Block Petro Poroshenko, “Popular Front” Prime Minister Yatsenyuk, Self-help, the Radical Party. In September last year the coalition came Radical Party, Oleg Lyashko. After that, the ruling coalition in the parliament 262 deputies left. After the release of “Fatherland” in parliament, the ruling coalition will be 243 deputies, more than half of the deputies of the Parliament ( 225 deputies).

According to the person close to the presidential administration of Ukraine, output Tymoshenko It does not affect the work of the coalition: the majority continue without her faction, ensure the passage of legislation may majoritarian faction. Apart from party factions two factions of deputies in parliament: “The will of the people” (19 deputies), and “The Party of the Renaissance” (23), as well as 53 non-deputy group

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According to Ukrainian political analyst Taras Berezovka, Tymoshenko wants to repeat the events of 2007 – to achieve early elections and become prime minister. « The possibilities for this she will be,” – he wrote on Twitter

President Petro Poroshenko of Ukraine opposes early elections Parliament -. It said in a statement released Tuesday . However, he was in favor of the government restarts.

If the political forces in the Verkhovna Rada in the near future will not find a way out of a difficult political situation, the government and parliament must be reloaded, said Wednesday at the opening of the meeting the chairman of the parliament, Vladimir Groisman. «yesterday that on the one hand the parliament recognized the work of the government unsatisfactory and, on the other hand could not even give the required number of votes in order to send it to resign, did not solve the crisis, but on the contrary, it has deepened,” – he said.

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« Everything is absolutely simple: either within a week a solution is found right here in parliament the political forces and the proposed model output from this situation, and the government must be completely restarted and, if necessary, and this parliament. In another way, simply can not be “, – said Groisman (quote Site parliament).

The coalition can continue to work, care Tymoshenko does not change anything, the situation will change, unless the ruling majority decides to leave the faction “Self Help”, then there will be the coalition crisis, which will have to settle for a month the creation of a new coalition and new government, said Ukrainian political analyst Volodymyr Fesenko.

Do not held resignation Yatsenyuk gave a reason for Tymoshenko to leave the coalition, it is interested in early elections yesterday in parliament all noticed her new image and started to joke that it was “a new image for a new election,” said Fesenko. However, the president in early elections are not interested, as if held for another six months will stall reforms called for by the international allies of Ukraine and the IMF, the analyst explains. With this in mind, even in the case of the collapse of the coalition and the inability to within one month to form a new, Poroshenko can not go to the dissolution of Parliament.

Premier Tymoshenko wants to see 7% of respondents indicated published in early February poll Ukrainian sociological service “Rating”. Most popular than former Prime Minister enjoyed Mikheil Saakashvili, he was supported by 11% of respondents. If the elections were held in January, for her party would vote 12.9% of respondents, “Fatherland” would have received fewer votes than the Block Poroshenko “Solidarity” (16.3%), the opposition bloc (13.8%), Samopomich (13.5%).