KIEV, October 29 (RIA Novosti) – Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, who heads the leading People's Front party following Sunday"s parliamentary elections, said Wednesday that his party would put forward its own coalition agreement.
"We have finished counting votes and the People's Front political party, which secured first place in these parliamentary elections, is obliged to begin the process of forming a coalition, and this is why we have prepared our own text for a coalition agreement," Yatsenyuk said.
Yatsenyuk added that a coalition and Cabinet needs to be formed "within a couple of weeks."
Earlier in the day, the Ukrainian president's party, Petro Poroshenko Bloc announced and passed on to two other leading political parties its own version of a coalition agreement containing 13 brief reforms proposals, from the judicial system to the energy sector.
Following the parliamentary elections that took place in Ukraine on Sunday, with almost all votes counted, the People's Front party headed by Yatsenyuk has garnered 22.22 percent of the votes, according to the Central Election Commission. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko"s Bloc is slightly behind with 21.82 percent. The Samopomich (Self-Help) party, under the leadership of western Ukraine's Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovy, is third with 11.03 per cent.
After the elections, Poroshenko and Yatsenyuk discussed the creation of a "powerful democratic coalition" of pro-European parties in the Ukrainian parliament.
