Protesters
marched on Independence Square in Kyiv after staging a one-hour strike on
Thursday called by an opposition leader and ex-boxing champion Vitaly
Klitschko.
The
walk-out came on the final day of the visit by the EU Enlargement Commissioner
Stefan Fuele. He had talked of the need for a new “inclusive government”. The
opposition reiterated its stance on any compromise. They want to form “Maidan
Government”, reported Euronews.
“As
for the post of prime minister there is no need to try and barter government
portfolios with the opposition. Our position is clear, we do not accept the
prime minister’s chair we will only accept the full responsibility of the
country which means forming the cabinet of ministers,” Arseny Yatsenyuk Leader
of the Fatherland Opposition Party told reporters.
President
Yanukovych who had the second of his two meetings with the Stefan Fuele had
already offered a coalition government to the opposition.
The
EU Commissioner, who also visited those injured in three months of pro-EU
protests, opposition casualties and wounded police officers, called on the two
sides to agree on constitutional reform.
