| Speaker says coalition collapse leads to Cabinet’s resignation |
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| Tuesday, 23 September 2008 13:23 |
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The break-up of a coalition entails the resignation of the Cabinet that it forms, parliamentary speaker Arseniy Yatseniuk has said. "The most important thing is that a coalition is a tool of responsibility for a Cabinet formed by this coalition. If there is no coalition, there is no Cabinet," Yatseniuk said today. He also reminded MPs that President Viktor Yushchenko has the right to dissolve Parliament if they failed to forge a new coalition. "If no new coalition is formed in the Ukrainian Parliament after the collapse of a coalition, the president of Ukraine has the right to take a decision to terminate the powers of the Supreme Council of Ukraine prematurely," he said. Yatseniuk announced on September 16 that the ruling coalition formed by the propresidential bloc Our Ukraine-People's Self-Defence and Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko's bloc had ceased to exist. According to the Constitution of Ukraine, a new coalition has to be formed within thirty days of this announcement. Yatseniuk also announced his resignation from his post last week, saying that the resignation of the speaker and the prime minister was envisaged in the coalition agreement signed between the two political forces in the event of the coalition’s collapse. |
