Tatyana Bakhteeva, Ivan Kirilenko and Andrey Kozhemyakin

From left to right: lawmaker from the Party of Regions Tatyana Bakhteeva, BYUT's leader Ivan Kyrylenko and lawmaker from the BYUT Andriy Kozhemyakin in the session hall of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, in Kyiv, on Wednesday, June 3, 2009. The deputy leader of the Party of Regions faction does not rule out that authorities of the present Verkhovna Rada have to be continued for some term in case of forming of new coalition. She noted that it is not easy for the Party of Regions to make a decision on unification with the BYUT, remembering insults, which were sent to address of members of the Party of Regions. At the same time she said that it is necessary to rise over these insults. According to opinion of the deputy leader of the Party of Regions, in the case of forming of new union, the anti crisis program has to be adopted and staff of the Cabinet of Ministers has to be considerably strengthened. “Probably, though we are against it, it will be necessary to prolong authorities of the present lawmakers for some moths because it is necessary to continue those reforms and structural changes, which prepares for us those draft Constitution, which we will submit to consideration, if we come to consent”, she said. Photo UNIAN