Parliament ruling coalition officially dissolves

At the Verkhovna Rada’s session this morning, Speaker Arseniy Yatseniuk announced that the ruling coalition composed of the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc and the Our Ukraine-People’s Self Defense Bloc was officially dissolved (for background see our note of September 3). According to the Constitution, parliamentary parties have 30 days to form a new coalition, after which point the president has the right, not the obligation, to dissolve parliament and call new elections.