Regions push for cabinet resignation to clear way to Yanukovych to disband Rada after presidential election

November17200920:59

Amid threats emanating from the Party of Regions to take a vote of confidence in the cabinet on Nov. 18, political analyst Volodymyr Fesenko believes the vote is one of the stages in the Regions plan to call snap parliamentary elections after the presidential election due Jan. 17.

Fesenko says the present cabinet will continue as an interim one after its resignation as there won’t be any possibility to form a new cabinet. This will allow the new president to call early parliamentary elections.

Meanwhile, it wouldn’t be easy to garner the votes of 226 lawmakers to pass the vote of no-confidence since there are many players in the Rada who are not interested in this.

The Party of Regions seems to be the one that most favors snap elections as does the pro-Yushchenko part of the NUNS faction. On the other hand, BYT, the Lytvyn bloc, Communists and the larger part of pro-Tymoshenko NUNS, Fesenko says.

“Raising the issue of a no-confidence vote is an attempt by the Regions to weaken Tymoshenko ahead of the election and to show that she lacks support in the Rada.

If Yulia Tymoshenko becomes president she won’t be interested in dissolving the Rada as she can have at least a temporary coalition in it and appoint her own premier whom she would control, Volodymyr Fesenko added.