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The coalition does not support the resignation by Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko, the first deputy chairman of the Verkhovna Rada, Iryna Gerashchenko, has said.

“We, the state-run coalition, do not support the resignation by Yuriy Lutsenko… Yuriy Vitalyevich raised this issue. I am now calling on the speaker to put this issue to vote so that we could see that the coalition won’t give their votes for this,” he said in her address to the parliament on November 6.

Earlier today, Ukraine’s Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko announced that he would submit his resignation because of a political PR campaign around the murder of civic activist Kateryna Handziuk that had affected the investigation of the case.