Updated 11:02 p.m. Moscow Time
KIEV, October 26 (RIA Novosti) - The candidature for the post of new Ukrainian prime minister will be chosen by parties that would form majority coalition in newly-elected parliament, leader of Petro Poroshenko bloc Yuriy Lutsenko said Sunday.
"The prime minister will be determined through coalition talks," Lutsenko said.
Verkhovna Rada Speaker Oleksandr Turchynov earlier said he hoped that the majority of lawmakers in the new parliament would back the candidature of Arseniy Yatsenyuk as the country’s new prime minister.
Ukraine held on Sunday snap parliamentary elections ordered by President Petro Poroshenko to ensure a pro-Europe majority in the parliament while clearing out lawmakers loyal to ex-leader Viktor Yanukovych.
The elections were held against the background of a serious political and economic crisis in the country. Despite the ceasefire agreement on September 5 between between government troops and independence supporters of the self-proclaimed Luhansk and Donetsk people’s republics, both sides have repeatedly accused each other of violating the truce.
