Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko held roundtable talks Thursday with the leaders of all parliamentary factions, and prominent political and public figures. The parties to the talks are currently harmonizing a final document laying down the principles for forming a new national unity coalition in parliament.
The second round of talks, which was due to have started Friday evening, did not take place.
Communist Party leader Petro Simonenko said the roundtable session was moved to Saturday.
The Party of Regions, led by Yushenko's former arch-rival Viktor Yanukovych, which received the largest number of parliamentary seats in a March election, formed the anti-crisis coalition earlier this month with Moroz's Socialist Party and the Communists.
Anatoly Kinakh, the leader of the pro-presidential Our Ukraine bloc, which includes five other parties, said Friday the bloc would not join a coalition with the Communist Party, but hinted it could reach a compromise with the Socialist Party.
He said discussions at Thursday's roundtable talks had not changed his bloc's standpoint on the situation - Our Ukraine wants the Supreme Rada be dissolved and a new "compromise" figure to be nominated for prime minister.
But the Party of Regions, said it would not surrender its coalition partner, the Communist Party.
"The coalition will not reject any members, including Communists," faction spokesman Taras Chernovol said, commenting on Our Ukraine's ultimatum.
"Our Ukraine lacks a political culture or an ability [to make] compromises," he said.
Chernovol said the roundtable discussions were "on the home stretch."
President Yushchenko is now facing a dilemma between confirming his "orange" revolution rival Yanukovych as prime minister or dissolving parliament - a right he received after the assembly missed a 60-day deadline for forming a new government on Tuesday. He has until August 2 to decide how to respond to Yanukovych's nomination.
