It has decided on Thursday to quit the ruling coalition, increasing pressure on Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk to find new allies or risk the collapse of his government, a leader of Ukraine's Samopomich (Self-Reliance) party, Oleh Berezyuk, informs.
It has decided on Thursday to quit the ruling coalition, increasing pressure on Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk to find new allies or risk the collapse of his government, a leader of Ukraine's Samopomich (Self-Reliance) party, Oleh Berezyuk, informs.
The move by Samopomich, which has 26 seats in the 450-seat parliament, leaves the coalition partners with 217 votes. Samopomich leaved ruling coalition a day after the former PM Yulia Tymoshenko's party the Batkivshchyna (Fatherland) walked out of the pro-Western coalition.
According to ABC News, the two factions remaining in the coalition are led by Poroshenko and Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk. They have been uneasy partners, with members of Yatsenyuk's and Poroshenko's blocs engaging in fierce spats which have strained public patience and eroded the confidence of the West.
“It has become obvious that there’s a grand alliance, which includes part of the Bloc of Petro Poroshenko Bloc, Yatsenyuk’s People’s Front and the ‘leftovers’ of the Party of Regions,” Samopomich faction leader said during a briefing in Kyiv on February 18. Berezyuk also mentioned this alliance was an “an attack” on the country's political system.
Interfax reports Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk has commented at a Cabinet meeting in Kyiv on the Samopomich faction's withdrawal from the coalition, noting that one should be able to assume political responsibility. He said he can only sympathize with the faction and it was needed to be able to bear political responsibility. "But, we will not allow for throwing the country into the abyss of instability, chaos, absence of foreign support, reforms, economic and political destabilization," the prime minister said.
