The Our Ukraine People's Self-Defense Bloc at the Verkhovna Rada intends to nominate Ivan Pliusch as the parliamentary speaker, president press secretary Iryna Vannikova said this in the report.

She said that the meeting of President Viktor Yuschenko and OU-PSD deputies considered two faction candidacies for the post of the Verkhovna Rada chairman: Ivan Pliusch and Viacheslav Kyrylenko.

She said that Yuschenko noted that in December, the parliament should elect the speaker and endorse the state budget for 2009.

As Ukrainian News earlier reported, Verkhovna Rada deputy of the Our Ukraine People's Self-Defense Bloc faction Roman Zvarych said that the OU-PSD intended to hold consultations with representatives of other factions on support to the candidacy of Ivan Pliusch as the speaker.

Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Mykola Tomenko said that the parliament will endorse its chairman on December 2-5.