I was hoping that LEvko at Foreignnotes would write about the following as I cannot make head nor tails of it but

"President Viktor Yushchenko is going to meet with Our Ukraine-People’s Self-Defense Bloc (NU-NS) bloc deputy candidates on November 22. At the meeting the President will nominate his candidate for the Verkhovna Rada speaker, allegedly Mr. Plushch, the current Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council." (Ukrayinska Pravda)

Yep, Plushch, the same person who was one of the three that held off on signing the OU-PSD and BYT coalition agreement due to what he voiced at the time where uncertainties whether he even wanted to be a deputy in Parliament. Well, according to the news, he wants to be more than just a deputy. He wants to be Speaker. Last, I understood was that Lytvyn might be nominated as Speaker but it seems that the deal making with Lytvyn Bloc fell through.

     And it seems that Plushch wants a grand coalition with Party of Regions and OU-PSD.  I know that Yanukovych and PoR desperately wants this and has been working to make this happen. Forget Kivalov's award - this would indeed make PoR uber-victorious in reclaiming their lost honor after the ignomy of the Orange Revolution.

     imho what a mess and disaster which would permanently wreck OU-PSD with the voters and it has been reported lead to a split within the political bloc. Yes, did realize that Yushchenko would never win a second term as President, but did not think he would go the way of Moroz! (Lifted from Kuzio's blog in eng and in ukr.)

     Personally, I think the President also knows that he is not destined to be Prez twice-in-a-row which is why he pushes so forcibly on issues dear to his heart i.e. Holodomor (btw Nov. 24, 4 pm. Kyiv Time "Light a Candle"). And the paradox is that he is madly successful with these initiatives, both on a domestic and international scale, but cannot achieve the same level of success politicaly.

And from EDM article "Ukrainian Coalition May Not Materialize":
" The Ukrainian parliament elected on September 30 will gather for its first sitting on Friday, November 23. It should elect a speaker and start forming a new cabinet. The constitution requires the sitting cabinet of Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych to step down before the new parliament convenes. Yanukovych, however, stands a high chance of staying on as caretaker prime minister. Increasingly, it appears that Yulia Tymoshenko, the candidate for prime minister from the majority coalition of her eponymous bloc and President Viktor Yushchenko’s Our Ukraine People’s Self-Defense (NUNS), may fail to muster support for her bid in parliament." (bold is mine)

News from Kyiv Post "Coalition Doubtful Ahead of Rada Opening" is also grim, "Leading politicians don’t expect a coalition agreement to emerge as they prepare for the new parliament’s first session on Nov. 23, noting that the likelihood of an Orange parliamentary majority has grown fairly faint."

According to Victor Baloha: it is not the fault of the President but "reasons rich in content" that problems developed between OU-PSD and BYT regarding coaltion formation between the two and it is a blame-game in targeting the President.

    Yeah, I do kinda buy into this but although the President is not the leader of OU nor PSD, his opinion and speech carry with it alot of oomph. And this is kinda, a rich speech from the guy (Baloha) who helped put the President into a corner - as the two last non-signers of the coalition agreement have ties to him. His words seem a bit hollow as he helped 'set up' the President and now defends him? Who is this guy - Shakespeare's Matk Anthony? Especially when he says the following:

"Скажу відверто: Президентові не потрібні будь-які щедрі жести від тих, хто ще сам не показав суспільству свою дієвість", - підкреслив глава Секретаріату."

Will speak plainly: A president needs no generous gestures from those, who have yet to show society their effectiveness", - the head of Secretariat underlined. 

     I do not know what is going on in the halls of power but there should be only one person speaking for what the President needs or wants and that is the President, himself.