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The newly-elected Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada could hold its first meeting in the third decade of November, and it could take one week more to form a coalition and government, says Vitaliy Kovalchuk, the head of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc's campaign staff.

“We have set the goal that the coalition should be formed within a week from the moment of the first session of the 8th Verkhovna Rada,” Kovalchuk told journalists in Kyiv on Thursday, Oct. 30.

“How soon could the first meeting take place? It is quite possible that it could be held in the last third of November,” he said.

The final results of the early parliamentary elections should be announced within the next few days, Kovalchuk said. “After that, we could start working productively,” he said.