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 Peoples Front with a narrow lead in party-list voting.
Snubbing a coalition agreement delivered by Poroshenko to Yatsenyuks 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 presidents bloc is his partys main strategic partner, the Peoples 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 were 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 nations 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 Putins government for instigating.
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Turn down the lights and pull the shades Katy, this party is just getting started...