
The current European Choice coalition in the Verhovna Rada was formed in November last year bringing together the Petro Poroshenko Bloc, the Popular Front, Tymoshenko’s Fatherland party, the Self-Help and Radical parties thus ensuring a parliamentary majority of 300 deputies in the 450-strong chamber.
On Tuesday the Radical Party’s leader Oleh Lyashko said his party was pulling out of the coalition and joining the opposition thus paving the way for early parliamentary elections.
Lyashko’s announcement came just a day after a bill granting wider powers to regional governments passed its first reading in parliament.