Ukrainian president threatens to call snap poll

KIEV-Ukraine's President Viktor Yushchenko threatened on Wednesday to call a snap parliamentary poll, saying the coalition government had collapsed.Yushchenko accused Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko of joining forces with rival factions after months of bickering between them and their parties which constitute the coalition.Tymoshenko said it was Yushchenko who had wrecked the coalition and her party said it was not looking for new partners.Yushchenko said in a televised statement that if a new governing coalition could not be formed, "I will use my right to dismiss parliament and announce early elections."That would be the third parliamentary election in as many years since the 2004 "Orange Revolution", which swept Yushchenko to power on a ticket of greater Western integration including joining NATO and the European Union.His office accused Tymoshenko of betraying Ukraine during the Georgian conflict by not backing Tbilisi, as Yushchenko did, when Russian troops marched into South Ossetia last month.Politicians at home and abroad warned Ukraine could be the Kremlin's next target. Analysts have said, although a Russian invasion is extremely unlikely, a divided political elite in Ukraine would spell trouble for relations with Moscow.Yushchenko has accused Tymoshenko of joining forces with the Regions Party of former Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich-who lost against Yushchenko in the 2004 presidential election which had to be rerun after it was deemed fraudulent.
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