Individual deputies may be included into the majority coalition in the Ukrainian parliament, member of the Central Election Commission Mykhailo Okhendovsky has said.
"Party of Regions, the Communist Party and the Bloc of Lytvyn having together 219 people’s deputies, may independently form a coalition. But they will need to include such a number of individual members of other factions as to achieve a total of 226 or more deputies," Okhendovsky said in an interview with Interfax-Ukraine.
According to the sixth part of Article 83 of the Constitution "a coalition of parliamentary factions, which comprises the majority of people’s deputies of Ukraine of the constitutional composition of Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, should be formed in the Verkhovna Rada following the parliamentary election," the CEC member said.
Okhendovsky also said that the decision of the Constitutional Court passed on September 17 2008 concerning the procedure of forming a parliamentary coalition contradicts the Constitution of Ukraine.
