Ukraine: Coalition-Building Saga

A roundup of posts on yet another Ukrainian coalition-building saga: In-depth political analysis from Tetyana Vysotska of What's up, Ukraine? ^[1], including the latest item on the newly-formed coalition ^[2], which, despite having a name – “National Development, Stability, and Order” – appears to be “not constitutional.” LEvko of Foreign Notes wrote earlier this month about the possibility of the Party of Regions/BYuT coalition ^[3], the president's alarmist response ^[4] to these speculations – and the Party of Regions’ indignant response ^[5] issued after a different coalition was formed. Leopolis wrote ^[6] that “politicians have reached a coalition deal only when the crisis has started to bite harder.” Chernobyl and Eastern Europe wrote ^[7] that “[e]ven if the new coalition has a parliamentary majority, don’t expect much to change.”