New coalition in Rada to be announced on April 12

New coalition in Rada to be announced on April 12

A parliamentary coalition has already been formed, and it will nominate Verkhovna Rada Speaker Volodymyr Groysman for the post of Ukraine's prime minister, Petro Poroshenko Bloc MP Oleksiy Honcharenko has said.

"We have a coalition of 226. The coalition will now be announced. It will hold its assembly, at which it will nominate a candidate for prime minister - this candidate will be Volodymyr Groysman. We will forward it to the president," Honcharenko said after the Petro Poroshenko Bloc faction's meeting, at which four new MPs joined the faction.

According to him, Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko at a meeting of his party's faction promised to submit to the parliament on Aoril 12 the candidate for the post of prime minister, who will be nominated by the coalition. "The president said he is ready to immediately submit to the parliament Groysman's nomination for the post of prime minister, and we will immediately vote for it. This all is going to happen today," the MP said.

Honcharenko also said that after the appointment of the prime minister by the Verkhovna Rada, the coalition factions will meet with nominees for the posts in the Cabinet, whom Groysman will present on Tuesday afternoon.