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Ukraine forms new parliamentary coalition

Xinhua, April 14, 2016 Adjust font size:

The Ukrainian parliament has formed a new ruling coalition, which exceeds the 226 minimum number of lawmakers required for passing legislation, a senior parliamentary official announced here Thursday.

"The coalition includes 235 lawmakers," Yury Lutsenko, head of the largest parliamentary faction, President Petro Poroshenko's bloc, told the parliament.

He said the newly-formed parliamentary majority consists of eight unaffiliated lawmakers and 227 members of the two major parliamentary parties -- the Solidarity Party that backs Poroshenko, and the People's Front Party of former Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk.

Ukraine's previous ruling coalition collapsed in mid-February after the departure of the Samopomich Party and the Fatherland Party led by former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.

The two political forces, which altogether had 45 seats in the 450-seat-strong parliament, withdrew from the coalition over alleged corruption inside the alliance.

The pro-Western parliamentary coalition, called "European Ukraine," was formed in November 2014 by five political groups -- the Solidarity, the People's Front, the Samopomich, the Fatherland and the Radical Parties.

The Radical Party announced its withdrawal from the coalition in September 2015. Endi