KIEV, October 14 (RIA Novosti) - Ukraine's government again refused on Tuesday to allocate election campaign funds and urged President Viktor Yushchenko to reverse a decision calling for early parliamentary polls, the UNIAN agency said. Yushchenko dissolved the legislature and called early polls for December 7 after his ruling "orange" coalition with Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko collapsed after the premier's party sided with the opposition in passing a law to cut his presidential powers. First Deputy Prime Minister Oleksandr Turchynov said as quoted by the agency 15 members of the cabinet voted in favor of the decision to withhold campaign funds and against new early elections, with nine voting "against." Speaking at a cabinet session before the vote, Tymoshenko reiterated that she opposed the snap election - the third...
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