Canceling anti-presidential laws is no guarantee BYUT-NUNS coalition will be patched up, Kost Bondarenko says

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Today’s voting in Verkhovna Rada in which a number of anti-presidential laws have been cancelled looks like a desperate unification move of Ukrainian lawmakers five minutes before facing a firing squad. There’s nothing more to it. However, whether they will be able to avoid a political execution remains an open-ended question, political expert Kost Bondarenko told ZIK Oct. 2.

He says the cancellation of anti-presidential laws is no proof the coalition will be restored. It is a long process, and if BYUT and NUNS fail to ink the deal by the end of Oct. 2, the incumbent has already threatened in Lviv that he may put his foot down and dissolve the legislature. “I am no supporter of coalition talks at gun point and at the eleventh hour. The deal could have been made a month ago on much the same terms. Why hasn’t the deal been struck? Is a question to BYUT and NUNS,” says Bondarenko.

Kost Bondarenko then said that the sooner the Ukrainians get discouraged with BYUT, NUNS and the Party of Regions, the more chance Ukraine has to survive and become a normal country.

Commenting on Taras Chornovil’s resignation from PR, Bondarenko called it manly behavior and wished Chornovil to stay in politics.

Comment by ZIK

Verkhovna Rada backtracked on its earlier vote on the law on the cabinet. The law, clipping Pres Yushchenko’s wings, was approved in a solidarity vote by BYUT and PR on Sept. 2.

The Lytvyn bloc lawmakers abstained from voting..