Kyiv, September 7 (Interfax-Ukraine) - The Party of Regions Leader Viktor Yanukovych believes that the "non-existing" coalition should be replaced with active cooperation among most MPs of the Ukrainian parliament.
He was speaking on the Inter TV channel on Sunday night while commenting on the progress of negotiations on raising social standards at the parliament.
“I have found the people, who backed me and said that if you introduce this bill [on increasing pensions] on Tuesday, than we are giving you a 99.9% guarantee that we will vote. At present, the factions of the Party of Regions, the Communist Party and the Bloc of Lytvyn and part of the Our Ukraine faction will vote,” he said.
“As soon as it happens we will have a precedent of cooperation of the majority in the parliament,” he added.
According to Yanukovych, there is in fact no coalition in the parliament, as the coalition is unable to continue working. In this connection he raised the question: “If the government is not working, what shall we do with the government?”
He also criticized the statements about the possible self-dissolution of the parliament or early elections to the Verkhovna Rada.
“The self-dissolution of the Verkhovna Rada… will be of no effect today. The early parliamentary election would only worsen the situation. This should not be done on no account,” he said.
