(VOVworld) – On Friday the Ukrainian parliament began negotiations on a new ruling coalition government, just one day after 4 of 5 parties belonging to the pro-EU ruling coalition agreed on negotiations.

Lawmaker Ihor Kononenko (left) speaks to Yuriy Lutsenko, the head of their presidential parliamentary faction, during a Verkhovna Rada session. (Photo: kyivpost)

According to Ukraine’s constitution, after the ruling coalition loses its majority, the parliament has one month to form a new coalition. Otherwise, the constitution authorizes the President to dissolve the parliament and hold elections. Yuriy Lutsenko, leader of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc (BPP), said if the parliament fails to tackle the political crisis in Ukraine next week, Ukraine will hold early elections. Lutsenko suggested the candidacy of parliament speaker Vladimir Groisman to the post of Prime Minister.

The People’s Front party announced its willingness to talk with the BPP about forming a new coalition and said it is weighing BPP’s nomination of Groisman, the principles on new coalition, and the next steps it should take.

Earlier the Radical Party said its participation in negotiations depended on a number of requirements, including renouncing the special status of Donbass, raising the retirement age, abolishing pensions taxation, and cancelling agricultural land sales.

The Batkivshchyna (Fatherland) party has not yet decided whether to join a new coalition while the Samopomich (Self-Reliance) party was not prepared to take part at all.