KIEV, November 20 (Sputnik) – A working group of Ukrainian lawmakers has agreed on a draft coalition agreement, leader of the Radical Party Oleh Lyashko said Thursday.
“We will sign it in an hour,” Lyashko said.
Meanwhile, Oksana Syroid of the Samopomich (Self-Help) party informed that the document is to be signed by authorized representatives of all the political forces that worked on the document. “Now, as soon as it is printed, we will go back and return to you with a finished document,” she said.
Early parliamentary elections took place in Ukraine on October 26. Ukrainians went to the polls to vote for 423 members of parliament — 225 of them from party lists and 198 in single-candidate constituencies. Parts of the southeastern Donetsk and Luhansk regions did not vote.
President Poroshenko's party, Petro Poroshenko Bloc received a total of 132 seats, while Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk's party, People's Front, gained 82 seats. The Samopomich (Self-Help), the Opposition Bloc, Oleh Lyashko's nationalist Radical Party and Batkivshchyna (Fatherland) have received 32, 27, 22 and 17 seats respectively.
In the wake of the vote, Poroshenko and Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk entered talks to form a "powerful democratic coalition" of pro-European parties in the Rada, a move applauded by the West.
