KIEV, June 13 (RIA Novosti) - A fresh round of talks between leaders of a mooted "orange coalition" in the new Ukrainian parliament broke up without producing a result, a representative of pro-presidential group Our Ukraine said.
"Today's talks showed that we should either look for new ways to form coalition, or stop this process," said Roman Bezsmertny, chairman of Our Ukraine's political committee.
Under Ukraine's Constitution, the parliament has to form a coalition majority within a month after it begins work. If parliamentarians fail to reach an agreement, President Viktor Yushchenko is entitled to disband the legislature and call new elections.
Parliament held its first session May 25, but immediately voted to go into recess until June 7. A June 7 session also voted on a further recess.
Bezsmertny said talks had failed after representatives of the bloc of former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko and the Socialist Party continued to insist on appointing Socialist party leader Oleksandr Moroz as parliamentary speaker, a proposal that Our Ukraine strongly opposed.
"We [the party] are now free in choice of our new partners to form the coalition," Bezsmertny said adding that Our Ukraine had been and continued to hold talks with the pro-Russian Party of Regions, which claimed the largest single share of the vote in the March elections to the Supreme Rada but had been frozen out of the three-way talks on coalition formation.
Yushchenko said earlier last week in his regular Saturday radio address to the nation that holding repeat elections to the country's parliament was "inadmissible."
"There will be no repeat elections - you have to form a majority," he said.
