President calls on democrats to act faster

President Viktor Yushchenko believes coalition talks involving Ukraine’s democratic forces should be “careful and open,” president's press office reported. 

“I have officially instructed Yulia Tymoshenko and Vyacheslav Kyrylenko to assume responsibility together with negotiating groups as soon as possible and form a democratic coalition,” he said, adding that this process “is, of course, not easy.”

“I understand that their three-vote lead means that we must speak more carefully and openly about the nuances in the relationship between these two political forces, but I demand today that they form a democratic coalition more actively,” he said. “Ukraine’s democracy must use this chance.”

The president reiterated his demand that the democratic forces must give more rights and powers to the opposition.