The Pora party, which is part of the Our Ukraine-People's Self-Defense bloc (OU-PSD), has expressed support for the decision of the bloc's parliamentary faction to withdraw from the ruling parliamentary coalition.
The Pora party adopted the relevant decision at a meeting of its political council on September 4.
According to members of the party, the faction was forced to withdraw from the coalition because the parliamentary factions of the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc and the Party of the Regions had essentially formed another coalition.
"Pora has always been an honest and reliable ally of the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc in the parliament. Therefore, it was shocked by the unexpected betrayal of our ideals and principles," said Parliamentary Deputy Vladyslav Kaskiv of the OU-PSD, who is the leader of the Pora party.
Kaskiv stressed that the Pora party saw no grounds for cooperation with the coalition formed by the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc and the Party of the Regions because it considered it a pro-Kremlin coalition.
Moreover, Kaskiv said that legal registration of the coalition of the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc and the Party of the Regions was possible.
As Ukrainian News earlier reported, the European Party, the Narodnyi Rukh of Ukraine party, and the Party of Defenders of the Fatherland have called on the OU-PSD and the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc to enter into dialogue with the aim of preserving their coalition.
The Narodnyi Rukh of Ukraine party considers the OU-PSD's decision to withdraw from the coalition a mistake.
The People's Self-Defense public movement has expressed opposition to the OU-PSD's withdrawal from the coalition.
The parliamentary faction of the Our Ukraine-People's Self-Defense bloc decided on September 2 to withdraw from the parliamentary coalition.
The decision to withdraw from the coalition was backed by 39 of the faction's 72 deputies.
The Our Ukraine People's Union party, the Forward Ukraine! party, the Narodnyi Rukh of Ukraine party, the Ukrainian People's Party, Ukrainian Republican Party Sobor, the Ukrainian People's Party, the Christian Democratic Union, the Pora party, the Party of Defenders of the Fatherland, and the European Party of Ukraine formed the OU-PSD on August 2, 2007, for contesting the 2007 early parliamentary elections.
