Speaker of the Ukrainian Parliament Oleksandr Turchynov and Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk have quit Yulia Tymoshenko’s Fatherland Party, according to Interior Minister Arsen Avakov, who has left the party too, ITAR-TASS reports.
Avakov said that Minister for Social Policy Lyudmila Denisova, Justice Minister Pavel Petrenko, Minister for Infrastructure Maksim Burbak and some lawmakers have left the party.
Observers say that Turchynov and Yatsenyuk want to have independent campaigns in the October 26 parliamentary polls.
