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Purveyor

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Wed Oct 29, 2014, 01:39 PM Oct 2014

Ukraine Premier Snubs Coalition Offer, Vows to Lead Talks

By Volodymyr Verbyany and Aliaksandr Kudrytski Oct 29, 2014

Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said he, and not President Petro Poroshenko, should lead coalition talks after near final election results showed his People’s Front with a narrow lead in party-list voting.

Snubbing a coalition agreement delivered by Poroshenko to Yatsenyuk’s party and the third-placed Samopomich after Oct. 26 general elections, Yatsenyuk said his party would draw up its own coalition framework and invite more parties to seal a pact within 20 days. While the president’s bloc is his party’s main strategic partner, the People’s Front will look elsewhere if Poroshenko disagrees with his plan, Yatsenyuk said.

“According to European practice, the party that wins first place in elections is obliged to start the coalition-building process,” Yatsenyuk, who called for ministerial proposals by Nov. 3, told reporters in Kiev today. “These are the principles according to which we’re ready to form a coalition.”

The remarks are the first sign of tension between Poroshenko and Yatsenyuk after pro-European parties may have won enough seats to gain a two-thirds constitutional majority, defeating Russian-leaning political forces that hail from the nation’s war-ravaged east. The vote took place during a fragile truce in a seven-month insurgency that Ukraine, the U.S. and the European Union blame Russian President Vladimir Putin’s government for instigating.

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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-10-29/ukraine-president-hands-pro-eu-parties-draft-ruling-pact.html

Turn down the lights and pull the shades Katy, this party is just getting started...

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The "Party of War" want's full control (that is what they actually call themselves) newthinking Oct 2014 #1

newthinking

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1. The "Party of War" want's full control (that is what they actually call themselves)
Wed Oct 29, 2014, 03:07 PM
Oct 2014

As I have posted elsewhere, Yatsunek's new "Peoples Front" is made up of a far right and Neo-Nazi's. This is not "Russian Propaganda", this is fact. That is why the "traditional" neo-nazi" parties did not do so well. They split up and half of them helped form Yatsuneks new coallation.

From http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025546464

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