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The All-Ukrainian Union Svoboda's parliamentary faction will not vote for Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk's resignation at the parliament's emergency meeting on July 31, while the Batkivschyna faction may finally decide to vote against Yatsenyuk's resignation if the Cabinet-proposed bills are passed.

“The parliament is not going to make such a decision, as far as I know. At least, our faction will not vote for Yatsenyuk’s resignation. We think he is fit for the job and is an efficient manager and prime minister,” lawmaker Andriy Illenko of the All-Ukrainian Union Svoboda’s faction said at a press conference in Kyiv on July 28.

Svoboda thinks, he said, that the government led by Yatsenyuk must continue working until a new Rada is elected and a new coalition forms a government.

Illenko also said that there is no political crisis in Ukraine and that a legitimate reset of authority is going on.

Lawmaker Volodymyr Yavorivsky of the Batkivschyna party, said, “Perhaps we will not vote [ for Yatseniuk’s resignation], but everything will depend on how the question is raised on Thursday and whether the government-proposed bills are passed.”

“If the bills are passed Yatsenyuk may carry on, I think,” he said.

Deputy Oksana Prodan of the UDAR faction refrained from giving a direct answer.

“We think the parliament must debate the prime minister’s letter of resignation,” she said.

“UDAR is ready to support the government-proposed amendments to the Tax Code with adjustments taken into account, and expects to receive renewed amendments to the state budget for 2014, Prodan said.