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Director of the Berta Communications Strategic Consulting Company Taras Berezovets has predicted that independent MP Petro Poroshenko could become the next prime minister of Ukraine.

“I’m practically sure that Poroshenko will be the next premier – [he
is] a candidate that suits the opposition,” he told Interfax-Ukraine.

Berezovets said that if this happens, it is also not ruled out that the majority in parliament will be completely reformatted.

“I predict that people will quit the Party of Regions faction and a
new parliamentary group will be formed. It will be necessary to amend
the rules of procedure in order to form not only a faction, but simply a
parliamentary group,” he added.

Berezovets also said that without amendments to the constitution all
further reshuffles would make no sense, and that this process should
take place in the Constitutional Court.

“In order to go through this quickly the only legislative way is the
Constitutional Court itself, which must decide on the return to the
political reform of 2004. They illegally abolished it in 2010, and they
have to take this decision,” he said.

As reported, Prime Minister Mykola Azarov handed in his resignation on Tuesday.

“I have made my personal decision to ask the Ukrainian president to
accept my resignation from the post of Ukrainian prime minister in order
to create additional opportunities for a socio-political compromise and
settle the conflict peacefully,” he said.