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Financial Times: Yanukovych closer to forming ‘unconstitutional’ coalition
President Viktor Yanukovych.

Financial Times: Yanukovych closer to forming ‘unconstitutional’ coalition

Mar 11, 2010 at 10:03
Roman Olearchyk writes: Viktor Yanukovych, who took over as Ukraine’s president in late February, inched closer to forming a government on March 10, signing into law new rules that make it easier for him to form a majority coalition in the nation’s divided parliament. The controversial law, dubbed unconstitutional by opposition and legal experts, allows a parliament majority to be assembled from individual lawmakers rather than party factions. By picking up individual lawmakers, his party’s chances of mustering a majority of 226 lawmakers in the country’s 450-seat legislature are strong. But in pursuing this controversial move, Yanukovych risks calling the legitimacy of his coalition into question.

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