Yulia Tymoshenko said her eponymous bloc's faction will return to parliament to work on anti-crisis laws following the announcement that President Viktor Yushchenko and Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych had reached a compromise deal on early elections.
"We are willing to meet the coalition halfway and return to Ukraine's parliament to adopt a package of enabling legislation that would put an end to the crisis," Tymoshenko said.
Tymoshenko's bloc finished second in March 2006 elections, but a coalition built with "orange" revolution allies, including Yushchenko's Our Ukraine, collapsed after the Socialists defected to the rival camp, led by Yanukovych's pro-Russian Party of Regions. Her 125-strong faction withdrew from the 450-seat assembly in protest.
On Friday, Yushchenko and Yanukovych said they had agreed to hold early elections - a deal seen as a major breakthrough in the month-long standoff over the president's April 2 order to disband parliament to stop his arch rival from usurping power.
