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Front for Change leader Arseniy Yatseniuk has said a new coalition in the parliament will be invalid if independent MPs can join it and that's why he will not head the government if such a coalition is created.

According to him an attempt to change the regulations of the Verkhovna Rada so as independent MPs can form a coalition is unconstitutional and illegal.

"This is a method how to steal the power, but not how to obtain really legitimate coalition and government," the politician said.

Asked about his possible premiership, Yatseniuk said: "Several names of possible premiers were openly announced. But I knowingly didn’t write a word about a premier and even didn’t speak about this with Yanukovych. To be a premier in the government or in the coalition where, for example, there are communists, is unacceptably for me. It is not my task to be a premier in the coalition, which doesn’t have clear ideological principles, which doesn’t know what to do, but has only one goal – to stay in power."