Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has given his support to Arseny Yatsenyuk from the People’s Front Party for a new term as prime minister following last weekend’s parliamentary election.<br /><br />As power-sharing talks continue, there had been speculation that the president would try to bring in a candidate from his so-called Poroshenko Bloc as head of a new pro-Europe, reformist government.<br /><br />“According to the Constitution it’s the largest faction that nominates the prime minister’s post,” said ‘Petro Poroshenko Bloc’ member Yurii Lutsenko.<br /><br />“We exercised our right in order to demonstrate that phrase ‘it’s time to unite’ is not only our party’s motto but is a concept of our activity,” he added.<br /><br />Meanwhile pro-Russian separatists in the self-proclaimed people’s republics of Donetsk and Luhansk are preparing for Sunday’s election.<br /><br />Western governments say the vote is illegal and will make it harder to end the conflict in Ukraine’s east. Moscow says it will honour the result.<br /><br />Russian President Vladimir Putin has made clear that despite Western sanctions over Moscow’s role in Ukraine he will not leave the region behind.
