KIEV, November 27 (Sputnik) – The Ukrainian parliament coalition Thursday has nominated incumbent Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk to occupy the same position in the newly formed government.
According to Ukrainian law, the parliament draws up a list of government officials and passes its nominee for prime minister to the country's president for approval. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has said several times in already that he would grant his approval to Yatsenyuk to head the newly formed government.
Early parliamentary elections in Ukraine were held on October 26. The Petro Poroshenko Bloc won a total of 132 seats, while People's Front followed with 82 seats and Samopomich with 32 seats. Radical Party, Batkivshchyna and the Opposition Bloc, who also made it to the Verkhovna Rada, as the Ukrainian parliament is known, received 22, 17 and 27 seats respectively.
After the vote, on November 21, representatives of five Ukrainian parties signed a draft agreement on the creation of a pro-European coalition in the parliament. The Opposition Bloc was not invited to join the coalition "over considerable political disagreements".
The agreement was drafted by the Petro Poroshenko Bloc and published on the party's website.
