NEW PARLIAMENT DEMANDS MORE COMPROMISE

The next step will be the setting up of factions, coalitions, the works. The Day asked People’s Deputy Yevhen Marchuk to comment on current developments.

“There is an acute problem of organizing unifying centers, and this will make itself felt when electing the key figures: the Speaker, his Deputies, and heads of commissions and committees. The Greens, SDP(U), PSP, and NDP will try to steer a middle course. The Communists and Socialists will stick to proportional representation where and whenever they can, thus actually ruining the principle of parliamentary consensus. One must shed the illusion that each of the parties will be able to do something single-handedly, especially without an overwhelming majority. Their leaders will be busy putting the finishing touches on their fractions. This is the first stage, which will be connected with the formation of administrative bodies and teach the politicians their first lesson, that the new Parliament needs far more compromise than its predecessor.”