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The signing of an agreement on the creation of a coalition in the next parliament between Batkivschyna and UDAR is hindered by the ambitions of leaders of parties for presidential elections in 2015, as well as Vitali Klitschko's fear that his personal rating and the level of support for his party could fall, according to Ukrainian political experts. 

“The issue concerns [the presidential elections] in 2015. [Arseniy] Yatseniuk and Klitschko are real contenders for this post from the opposition. Yatseniuk and the Batkivschyna’s team certainly have plan B to neutralize Klitschko – just to make him a Ukrainian politician. This is the best way to get rid of the illusions of our voters. They want to make him reach agreements and create coalitions, knowing in advance that he will not have even 180 deputies. They want to agree on posts and appoint [Serhiy] Sobolev as next prime minister. These are the steps that have always demonstrated the isolation of our politics from real life and the lack of logical thinking,” Deputy Director of the Situations Modeling Agency Oleksiy Holobutsky said at a press conference in Kyiv on Friday.

He said Batkivschyna and UDAR did not know how many deputies they will have in the new parliament.

“If Klitschko has more MPs, then he will set the terms, and if Batkivschyna has more deputies, it will try to set the terms. Besides, we must not forget about the third player that can appear – Svoboda,” Holobutsky said.

Political expert Volodymyr Tsybulko, in turn, said that Klitschko’s presidential rating was significantly growing.

“He, in fact, is now a finalist, while Yatseniuk, with his current presidential rating, is behind [Communist Party leader Petro] Symonenko,” he said.

The analyst also said that there was a so-called “Yatseniuk syndrome” when a politician enters the campaign with a fairly high rating, but finally gets a lower result.

“And Klitschko is afraid of contracting this ‘virus’ from Yatseniuk, and he is afraid of getting closer to Batkivschyna so as not to accept this electoral syndrome of Yatseniuk,” Tsybulko said.

He also predicted that Yatseniuk would want to create his own faction in parliament and that Batkivschyna leaders also have a similar desire.