Petro Poroshenko Bloc Passes Draft Coalition Agreement
Updated 11:52 a.m. Moscow time
KYIV, October 29 (RIA Novosti) – The current Ukrainian president’s Petro Poroshenko Bloc has announced and passed on to two other leading political parties its coalition agreement project, according to a statement on the Poroshenko Bloc’s website on Wednesday.
“The Petro Poroshenko Bloc party has offered a coalition agreement project. We have given this document to the People’s Front political party and the Samopomich political party,” the statement reads.
The 48-page draft coalition agreement, also available on the same website contains 13 brief reforms proposals, from judicial system to energy sector.
Following a snap parliamentary vote that took place in Ukraine on Sunday, President Poroshenko and incumbent Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, who head the two leading parties in the elections, discussed the creation of a “powerful democratic coalition” of pro-European parties in the Ukrainian parliament.
With 97 percent of the ballots counted, the People’s Front party headed by Yatsenyuk has garnered 22.22 percent of the votes, according to the Central Election Commission. Petro Poroshenko Bloc is slightly behind with 21.82 percent and the Samopomich (Self-Help) party, under the leadership of western Ukraine’s Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovy, is third with 11.03 percent.