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Ukraine parliament coalition breaks up - speaker

Ukraine parliament coalition breaks up - speaker
An interior view shows a session hall of the Ukrainian parliament in Kiev, Ukraine May 14, 2019. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko Copyright  VALENTYN OGIRENKO(Reuters)
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KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine's main parliamentary coalition broke up on Friday after the People's Front party quit outgoing President Petro Poroshenko's faction, the parliament speaker said.

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Parliament now has one month in order to form a new coalition or else the president can dissolve parliament and call snap parliamentary elections.

(Reporting by Natalia Zinets; writing by Tom Balmforth; editing by Matthias Williams)

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