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Wednesday, 17 February 2010 09:46 |
Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, who lost the presidential election, at a meeting with deputies of the pro-presidential faction "Our Ukraine - People's Self-Defense (OU-PSD) stated that she was not going to leave her post as the head of the cabinet and wants to consolidate the parliamentary coalition, said OU-PSD deputy Roman Zvarych according to the outcome of the meeting.
In the morning on Tuesday before the meeting of the Parliament Tymoshenko held a closed meeting with members of OU-PSD.
"We heard from the Prime Minister of Ukraine, that she is not going to resign," - said Zvarych, as reported the Ukrainian news agency UNIAN.
According to him, Tymoshenko said that "the presidential election has nothing to do with the Parliament, and in particular with the situation in the government either legally or in any other relation."
According to Zvarych, Tymoshenko said that if there were an opportunity to preserve and consolidate "our coalition, then she will do this."
Ukrainian Central Election Commission officially announced the leader of the Party of Regions Viktor Yanukovych the elected president on February 14. According to official data of the commission, in the second round of the presidential elections Yanukovych received 48.95% of votes, while his opponent - the acting Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko - 45,47%.
Tymoshenko will continue to head the government until the parliament decides to change the Prime Minister, which is unlikely in the current parliamentary coalition of the PSD, the Bloc of Yulia Tymoshenko and the Bloc of Lytvyn.
To strengthen the government Yanukovych wants to create a new coalition in the Parliament, which will support him and confirm a new Prime Minister. In the media there is information that the Party of Regions is in talks with the PSD to join the coalition.
There are five factions in Ukrainian parliament - the Party of Regions (172 seats), Yulia Tymoshenko's Bloc (153 deputies), the bloc "Our Ukraine - People's Self-Defense (71 deputies), Communist Party (27 deputies), Lytvyn's Bloc (20 members), and six deputies who do not belong to any faction. |
