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This is reported by the newspaper "Ukraina moloda," whose editor is Mykhailo Doroshenko, an adviser and close associate of Yushchenko.

Deputies elected the presidium of the Verkhovna Rada, which will preside over it until the election of the speaker.

The Verkhovna Rada of the fifth convocation began its work \nThe session was opened by the chairman of the previous Verkhovna Rada, Volodymyr Lytvyn.

On May 24, at a session of the Volyn Regional Council, the council chairman Anatoliy Hrytsiuk announced that factions would operate in the council - UNP, BYuT, "Our Ukraine," SPU, Party of Regions, "Ridna Volyn," and the Bloc of Volodymyr Lytvyn.

“Nothing significant has happened over these two months; one can speak only of the delay in forming the coalition and of the fact that this delay is happening primarily on the part of the “Our Ukraine” bloc,” said Volodymyr Filenko, deputy head of the “Reforms and Order” party, commenting on the process of creating a…

The Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc and the Socialist Party propose to remove the agreements on the positions of prime minister and chairman of the Verkhovna Rada from the framework of the coalition agreement.

BYuT leader Yulia Tymoshenko believes that the "Our Ukraine" bloc must agree that a BYuT representative should head the government, and a Socialist Party representative should head the parliament. She stated this on Monday in an interview with journalists in Kyiv, UNIAN reports.
BYuT leader Yulia Tymoshenko says that a draft coalition agreement will be ready by the end of the day on Monday. She said this in an interview with journalists on Monday after a meeting with Socialist Party leader Oleksandr Moroz and one of the leaders of the "Our Ukraine" bloc, Roman Bezsmertny.
Only in the evening of May 12 did the name of the head of the Volyn Regional Council of the V democratic convocation become known.
On May 12, the first session of the Volyn Regional Council of the V democratic convocation opened unconventionally. At the demand of some deputies, it is being chaired by the head of the TEC Mykola Yevtushyn, rather than the previous council head, as had been the case for three convocations in a row.
