Ukraine's ruling coalition on brink of collapse after Fatherland party withdrawal

The Fatherland Party of Ukraine's former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko on Wednesday announced its withdrawal from the country's ruling coalition, prompting fears that the parliamentary majority may collapse and the Eastern European country may face snap elections in the near future.

"The Fatherland party and Fatherland faction consider it impossible to continue being a part of this crew, which doesn't have a chance over the unwillingness to implement reforms and defend Ukraine," Tymoshenko told reporters.

She also urged the lawmakers from the other three political forces, which formed the coalition, to quit.

"We call upon all the lawmakers, who have not lost their honor, conscience and responsibility for the country, to leave the ranks of this shadow coalition," Tymoshenko said.

The move came Tuesday after the Ukrainian government survived a non-confidence motion in a vote in the parliament, which some lawmakers described as "falsified" and "based on collusion between President Petro Poroshenko, Prime Minister Arseny Yatsenyuk and oligarchs."

After the withdrawal of the Fatherland party, which occupied 19 seats of the 450 seats in the parliament, the ruling coalition still has a narrow majority of 241 lawmakers, which exceeds the required 226 minimum for passing legislation.

However, local analysts have not ruled out the possibility of individual lawmakers quitting in the near future over alleged corruption inside the coalition.

Currently, the other three political forces that compose the coalition include the Solidarity Party that backs Poroshenko, the People's Front Party of Yatsenyuk and the Samopomich Party of Andriy Sadovyy, mayor of the western Ukrainian city of Lviv.

Earlier in the day, the Samopomich Party announced that it will hold an emergency meeting on Thursday to discuss the voting of their lawmakers on the non-confidence bill against the cabinet. Endi