A parliamentary coalition has already been formed, and it will nominate Verkhovna Rada Speaker Volodymyr Groysman for the post of Ukraine's prime minister, Petro Poroshenko Bloc MP Oleksiy Honcharenko has said.

"We have a coalition of 226. The coalition will now be announced. It will hold its assembly, at which it will nominate a candidate for prime minister - this candidate will be Volodymyr Groysman. We will forward it to the president," Honcharenko said after the Petro Poroshenko Bloc faction's meeting, at which four new MPs joined the faction.

According to him, Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko at a meeting of his party's faction promised to submit to the parliament on Tuesday the candidate for the post of prime minister, who will be nominated by the coalition. "The president said he is ready to immediately submit to the parliament Groysman's nomination for the post of prime minister, and we will immediately vote for it. This all is going to happen today," the MP said.

Honcharenko also said that after the appointment of the prime minister by the Verkhovna Rada, the coalition factions will meet with nominees for the posts in the Cabinet, whom Groysman will present on Tuesday afternoon.

For her part, MP Svitlana Zalischuk of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc said that the parliament will put to the vote Arseniy Yatseniuk's resignation from the post of prime minister around noon on Tuesday.

After the vote, a meeting of the parliamentary coalition is scheduled, followed by "the nomination of the prime minister and his further submission to parliament by the president, and the vote on this candidate," she said.

From 14:00 until 16:00 on Tuesday, a meetings with all candidates for ministerial posts is scheduled followed by the appointment of the Cabinet of Ministers, the MP added.

On Wednesday, the program of the government will be considered, Zalischuk said.