Tarasyuk Suggests Compromise Option.

Boris Tarasyuk, the acting foreign minister and a close ally of President Yushchenko, suggested today that individual Our Ukraine figures could join the new government while the Our Ukraine MP faction went into opposition. Tarasyuk strongly opposed new elections and avoided the topic of who would be prime minister. Mykola Azarov, a Regions leader, said the Regions-Socialist-Communist coalition was negotiating with Our Ukraine and that Our Ukraine had agreed to temporarily set aside the thorny issues of who would be prime minister and whether the Communists would be in the coalition. However. Our Ukraine’s spokeswoman said the party was not talking with Regions. Tom Warner: Yushchenko has got himself into a lose-lose scenario: either he can bless the Blue-Pink coalition and try to make the best of it, or call new elections and see his party splinter and maybe disappear. It appears that Yushchenko and his closest allies within Our Ukraine are leaning towards accepting Yanukovich as prime minister, while the majority of Our Ukraine including the business faction led by Petro Poroshenko prefer new elections.