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| Ukraine's parliament has passed a motion of no-confidence in Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko's government. | Ukraine's parliament has passed a motion of no-confidence in Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko's government. |
| She and her cabinet will now have to resign, while the new President, Viktor Yanukovych, will try to assemble a new coalition in parliament. | She and her cabinet will now have to resign, while the new President, Viktor Yanukovych, will try to assemble a new coalition in parliament. |
| If he fails, the country will face snap parliamentary elections. | If he fails, the country will face snap parliamentary elections. |
| Despite defeat in recent presidential elections, Mrs Tymoshenko resisted pressure to quit, saying she would only go into opposition as a last resort. | Despite defeat in recent presidential elections, Mrs Tymoshenko resisted pressure to quit, saying she would only go into opposition as a last resort. |
| But before the vote on Wednesday she indicated her cabinet would not stay on as a caretaker government. | |
| "If the dismissal of the government is passed today, at that very same moment our government will leave the cabinet. Our political force will cross into the opposition," she was quoted by Reuters news agency as saying. | |
| The motion did pass, gaining the backing of 243 out of the chamber's 450 MPs. | |
| On Tuesday the speaker of parliament said Mrs Tymoshenko's coalition had officially collapsed, as it had failed to prove it had a majority. |