President held to blame Moroz places blame on the collapse of the Orange alliance on Ukraine's President
Ukraine's socialists accuse president over coalition collapse Source: RAI Novosti 19:40 07 / 07 / 2006 KIEV, July 7 (RIA Novosti) - Ukraine's Socialist Party blames President Viktor Yushchenko for a virtual collapse of a coalition majority formed in the country's parliament in June, a party member said Friday. Ivan Boky said, "The president ruined the coalition by nominating Petro Poroshenko for the post of [Supreme Rada] speaker." The coalition of Western-leaning forces broke up when the Party of Regions, holding 186 seats in the Rada, and the Socialist and Communist parties with 33 and 21 seats respectively joined forces late Thursday to elect Socialist leader Oleksandr Moroz as speaker. The three parties are currently holding talks on the formation of a new parliamentary coalition. Boky said anarchy followed the collapse of the "orange" coalition that "ruined the economy and created political instability." "Therefore, we had to assume ...