"All our members of parliament have offered their resignation to the sole legitimate person in the country, the president," the bloc's press service quoted Tymoshenko as saying.
She said following the presidential decree to dissolve parliament, "Supreme Rada leaders, factions, and parliament have ceased to exist," which gives the president additional grounds for calling early parliamentary elections.
Ukraine's Constitutional Court, which is now in its third day of examining a presidential decree ordering the dissolution of parliament and calling for snap elections, was accused by Tymoshenko Wednesday of representing political parties and of bias and being corrupt. She said that her bloc would not recognize the ruling and called the court session a farce and "a seizure of power by Yanukovych's clan."
Tymoshenko, Yushchenko's fierce ally in the 2004 protests that swept him to power, urged a non-stop rally Wednesday to demand early polls without waiting for a decision by the court, which is due by April 27.
Several thousand protesters gathered near Ukraine's Constitutional Court Thursday, with about 4,000 backers of Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych, whose allies dominate the Supreme Rada, facing some 6,000 supporters of President Viktor Yushchenko, who are demanding the dissolution of the legislature.
The camps are separated by a police cordon and metal fence. No clashes have been reported so far. The court building is also cordoned off by police following pro-presidential protesters blocked the court entrance Wednesday delaying the court session for an hour, and clashes with pro-premier forces.
Both Yushchenko and Yanukovych, who are locked in a long-running power struggle, have pledged to obey any court decision and have not ruled out a compromise on an election date.
