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Ukraine's Poroshenko backs Yatseniuk for new term as prime minister


    KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko on Friday backed Arseny Yatseniuk for a new term as prime minister following last Sunday's election.

    "I have proposed to the faction of the Poroshenko bloc that it submits Arseny Yatseniuk as a candidate for prime minister," he said in a tweet.

    Yatseniuk, 40, a former economy and foreign minister, said this week he wanted to remain prime minister after his People's Front party came first in a parliamentary election last Sunday dominated by pro-Western political groups.

    The Poroshenko bloc, headed by the president, came fractionally behind People's Front.

    (Reporting By Pavel Polityuk; editing by Richard Balmforth and Sonya Hepinstall)