President Viktor Yuschenko thinks that the snap elections to the Verkhovna Rada are not a priority issue along of the financial and economic crisis, the presidential press service informed.

"The president does not need elections when today on the agenda is such a big problem as the economic crisis. We must think now about the society and then how to do so that positions of all political players currently represented at the Verkhovna Rada are taken into account," Presidential Secretariat's chief Viktor Baloha has announced in his interview with the ICTV channel.

Baloha believes it is necessary not forming the parliamentary coalition but passing legislative acts to normalize the crisis situation in the society, specifically the national budget for 2009.

The Secretariat head believes it is impossible to build a coalition of the factions of the Our Ukraine - People's Self-Defense bloc and the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc.

"Today's ultimatums of Yulia Volodymyrivna testify still the same: anomaly. Who wants to talk with the BYT about some coalition after this? It is unethical to raise the question on restoration when it was her who did everything for this coalition not to exist," he claimed.

Baloha stressed, the parliament must elect a new chairperson in the nearest time.

As Ukrainian News earlier reported, Verkhovna Rada deputy Oksana Bilozir of the Our Ukraine - People's Self-Defense faction, who is also member of the United Centre party, predicts that the preliminary parliamentary elections will take place in February-April 2009.

The Committee of Ukrainian Voters and leader of the Socialist Party Oleksandr Moroz forecasting that the early elections to the Verkhovna Rada will be held at the end of winter or start of spring in 2009.