The pro-Western alliance fell apart in September after lawmakers from the pro-Russian opposition, the Party of Regions and the Communist Party, backed by the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc, voted to reduce presidential powers and simplify impeachment procedures.
Speaking on the future development of political events in Ukraine, a deputy leader of the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc, Andrei Kozhemyakin said: "On Saturday or Sunday the president could address the Ukrainian people, and on Monday we could all see a decree calling elections on December 7."
Under the country's constitution, the president can dissolve parliament and call snap elections if no coalition is formed within 30 days. The former-Soviet state has been plagued by political instability since 2004. The last parliamentary election took place in September 2007.
Although parliament overturned Thursday the controversial laws, introduced last month, which the president had called 'anti-constitutional,' lawmakers failed to adopt a declaration denouncing Russia's actions in Georgia. Viktor Yushchenko has openly condemned Russia's response to Georgia's attack on South Ossetia, with Tymoshenko refusing to back the president's stance.
As the October 3 deadline approached, talks between the factions formerly within the ruling coalition, which also included the Supreme Rada's smallest group, led by former parliamentary speaker Volodymyr Lytvyn, have made no progress.
President Yushchenko refused Friday to give the Lytvyn Bloc the right to be part of the democratic coalition. Commenting on the move, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said she regretted the president's decision, but hoped that the bloc would rejoin the coalition in the future.
Tymoshenko earlier pledged that her party would accept all conditions for forming a new coalition, amid growing fears that the president would dissolve parliament. However, Kozhemyakin said the pro-presidential Our Ukraine-People's Self-Defense Bloc was intentionally delaying the coalition talks and had drawn up new conditions for Tymoshenko.
"The impression is that Our Ukraine-People's Self-Defense Bloc received some kind of instructions and therefore we are seeing nothing constructive," Kozhemyakin said.
