The Radical Party announced the withdrawal of its faction from the parliamentary coalition as far back as Aug. 1, after the "Kremlin changes" were voted into the Ukrainian Constitution, party leader Oleh Liashko told reporters on Feb. 18.
“The faction’s political announcement of its withdrawal from the coalition is the ‘factual withdrawal from the coalition,” politicians have been manipulating the issue of deputies’ personal signatures about withdrawal from the coalition,” the party leader said.
“This is our political position. What signatures?!” he said.
The Ukrainian laws make no provision for the procedure of going into, and out of, the coalition, Liashko said.
“Today, there is not a single law that would regulate the procedure of exiting and joining a coalition,” he said.
The law regulating Verkhovna Rada contained a coalition section before it was removed in 2010, he recalled.
It was reported that, on Feb. 17, Batkivschyna party faction leader, Yulia Tymoshenko, said that her faction had decided to quit the parliamentary coalition. The move was announced the following day by Rada Speaker Volodymyr Hroisman.
On February 18, the Samopomich faction announced its decision to withdraw from the coalition, but the speaker has yet to announce the withdrawal.
