Communist Party of Ukraine Leader Petro Symonenko has said President Viktor Yuschenko demands that the Verkhovna Rada should amend the 2008 national budget, so as to fund the early elections to the Verkhovna Rada.
Symonenko told this to the press after a meeting between Yuschenko and leaders of the Verkhovna Rada on dissolution of the parliament.
"The president set a task: let us introduce amendments to the state budget and I [Yuschenko] will think then weather there will be elections or not," Symonenko said.
According to Symonenko, the meeting gave no assessment to the situation in the state and organization of the work of all branches of the government.
Symonenko said Yuschenko once again demonstrated his inability to organize the work in the state.
"He was speaking about anything and accused all of all possible sins. He accused communists of disrupting their coalition," he said.
Symonenko said he did hear an answer to the question if Yuschenko would disband the parliament.
As Ukrainian News earlier reported, President Yuschenko invited for October 8 Verkhovna Rada Chairman Arsenii Yatseniuk, Verkhovna Rada First Deputy Chairman Oleksandr Lavrynovych, Verkhovna Rada Deputy Chairman Mykola Tomenko, and leaders of all five factions in the Verkhovna Rada for a meeting on the dissolution of the parliament.
According to article 90 of the Constitution of Ukraine, the president makes a decision on the dissolution of the parliament after a meeting with the speaker of the parliament, deputy speakers of the parliament, and leaders of the factions in the parliament.
The majority coalition of the Bloc of Yulia Tymoshenko and the Our Ukraine - People's Self-Defense Bloc was declared broken on September 16.
