Interior Affairs Minister Yurii Lutsenko, who is also the leader of the People's Self-Defense public movement, believes that President Viktor Yuschenko needs early parliamentary elections to enable the parliamentary faction of the Our Ukraine People's Union party to form a coalition with parliamentary faction of the Party of Regions or the Lytvyn Bloc.

Lutsenko announced this at a press conference.

"Because of betrayals by the President and his political force and fraternization with the Party of the Regions, they have launched elections exclusively to form a coalition with the Party of Regions or the Lytvyn Bloc," Lutsenko said.

According to Lutsenko, the country does not need early parliamentary elections because the elections will affect stability in the country.

As Ukrainian News earlier reported, Yuschenko announced dissolution of the parliament on October 8.

The decree on dissolution of the parliament was signed and published (allowing it to come into force) on October 10.

Yuschenko scheduled early parliamentary elections for December 7.