14:30 24.07.2014

Eight Batkivschyna faction deputies quit coalition - Tomenko

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Eight Batkivschyna faction deputies quit coalition - Tomenko

Batkivschyna MP Mykola Tomenko has said that eight Batkivschyna faction deputies have quit the European Choice coalition in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of the seventh convocation.

"Eight Batkivschyna faction deputies have currently backed [the faction's] withdrawal from the coalition," he said at a briefing in Kyiv on Thursday.

He said that the Batkivschyna faction had demonstrated that it is not afraid of new elections.

"We are 80% with the Ukrainian people [who are in favor of holding early parliamentary elections]," Tomenko said.

He said that most Batkivschyna deputies were ready for early elections.

As reported, Batkivschyna faction leader Serhiy Sobolev said from the parliament's rostrum on Thursday that the faction was ready to accept early parliamentary elections after a law is passed regarding the proportional-representation system with open lists, and the anti-terrorist operation ends in the east of the country.

"The Batkivschyna faction hereby declares that we accept the early parliamentary elections and believe that under these conditions the only way to hold these elections is to pass a law on the proportional-representation elections based on open lists," he said.

The second condition is "an immediate restoration of order and the completion of the liberation of Ukraine's territory from Russian invaders and terrorists who support them," he said.

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