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Tymoshenko says Ukrainian government illegitimate

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The leader of Ukraine's opposition bloc, Yulia Tymoshenko, said Monday the current government was illegitimate and called upon the president to dissolve parliament and announce new elections.
KIEV, September 4 (RIA Novosti) - The leader of Ukraine's opposition bloc, Yulia Tymoshenko, said Monday the current government was illegitimate and called upon the president to dissolve parliament and announce new elections.

Yulia Tymoshenko, President Viktor Yushchenko's first prime minister and ally on the streets in the 2004 popular protests known as the "Orange Revolution," was the only leader of a major political movement who refused to sign in August a national unity agreement aiming to end the country's protracted political crisis.

After the approval of Viktor Yanukovych August 4 by the Ukrainian parliament to the post of prime minister, Tymoshenko said her bloc would form a strong opposition to the government and may establish a shadow Cabinet along European lines.

And Monday she said the government led by Viktor Yanukovych was illegitimate because the prime minister and the majority of Cabinet members should have given up their parliamentary seats August 25, according to the deadline established by the Constitution, but failed to do so.

"The only solution is to introduce a new candidate to the post of prime minister [in the parliament] and vote again," Tymoshenko said.

Speaker of the Ukrainian parliament Aleksandr Moroz denied Tymoshenko's assertion that the government was illegitimate.

"One can always find a clause in the legislation and use it for political intrigue," Moroz told a news conference Monday. "But it should not be attempted."

The speaker said the existing coalition in the Ukrainian parliament will not be dissolved for the sake of forming a new one. He said the coalition majority would be "reformatted" after it is joined by the pro-presidential Our Ukraine bloc.

The current coalition comprises the Communists, the Socialists, and Yanukovych's Party of Regions.

Tymoshenko's eponymous bloc was the leading force in the first parliamentary coalition to emerge after the March 26 elections, but the alliance collapsed when the Socialists defected to join Yanukovych's Party of Regions.

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