Ukraine Premier Snubs Coalition Offer, Vows to Lead Talks
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Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said he, and not President Petro Poroshenko, should lead coalition talks after near final election results showed his People’s Front with a narrow lead in party-list voting.
Snubbing a coalition agreement delivered by Poroshenko to Yatsenyuk’s party and the third-placed Samopomich after Oct. 26 general elections, Yatsenyuk said his party would draw up its own coalition framework and invite more parties to seal a pact within 20 days. While the president’s bloc is his party’s main strategic partner, the People’s Front will look elsewhere if Poroshenko disagrees with his plan, Yatsenyuk said.