Campaign chief of Servant of the People denies reports on coalition talks with Voice party

Kornienko says he is not aware of "systemic" negotiations with Holos.

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Campaign chief of the Servant of the People Party Oleksandr Kornienko says the party does not negotiate a coalition with Svyatoslav Vakarchuk's Holos (Voice) Party.

"Perhaps someone personally is in contact [on this issue]. I maintain personal communication with certain deputies from the Voice [party]. However, we haven\t discussed this at the party level," he told RBC Ukraine on August 12, adding that he is not aware of "systemic" negotiations with Holos.

When asked whether there will be a single faction that will form the majority in the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's parliament, he said: "This is a likely scenario."

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As UNIAN reported, Voice earlier proposed its candidates for senior positions in the new parliament, in particular, its representatives could head committees on justice, security, defense, economic policy, anti-corruption activity, medicine, education, digitalization, human rights and the reintegration of occupied territories, as well as a regulatory committee.

Earlier, leader of the Servant of the People Party Dmytro Razumkov said the party does not in talks with other forces on a coalition in parliament of the new convocation.

According to recent reports, the party will nominate Razumkov to the post of Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada.

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