KIEV, March 18 – Opposition groups may unblock the work of Parliament on Tuesday after achieving some progress at a meeting with the pro-government party on Monday, lawmakers said Monday.

The resumption of Parliament’s work would ease speculation that President Viktor Yanukovych may resort to dismissing the legislature and calling early elections.

“We may unblock the work of Parliament tomorrow,” Leonid Yemets, a lawmaker from the opposition Batkivshchyna party, said after the meeting. “That’s if a number of our demands will be implemented.”

The demands include creating a committee to investigate the recent stripping of Serhiy Vlasenko, a key defender of former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, of his parliamentary seat and scheduling Kiev mayoral election on June 3.

The Kiev government for the past three years has been run by Oleksandr Popov, an appointee of President Viktor Yanukovych, repeatedly delaying elections on technicalities.

The opposition groups, which enjoy heavy support in Kiev, hope that winning the mayor’s post would boost morale among its supporters and provide an important victory ahead of the next presidential election in March 2015.

“We have agreed upon all issues, including those suggested by the opposition groups,” Oleksandr Rybak, the speaker of Parliament, said after the meeting. “That’s why I don’t see any reasons for continued blocking of Parliament.”

“I personally stand for the [Kiev] election and will vote in favor,” Rybak said. “I asked the Regions Party and the Communists – they also will most likely be voting to schedule the election on June 2.”

Yanukovych would acquire the power to dismiss Parliament if the legislature fails to hold a session for at least 30 days. The opposition groups started blocking Parliament on March 7 in reaction to stripping Vlasenko of his seat.

This is the second time that the opposition groups resorted to blocking Parliament following elections on October 28, 2012. The first 17-day protest ended on February 22 after a compromise had been reached with the Regions Party over a voting procedure.

The developments come as report released on Monday showed that the new election would not bring any significant change to Parliament in the event of early elections and Parliament would be essentially split between the Regions Party and the opposition groups.

The Regions Party would score 29.3% of the vote, while the opposition Batkivshchyna party would score 19.4%, followed by the centrist opposition Udar party at 15.7% and the opposition nationalist Svoboda party’s 13.6%, according to the Razumkov Center, a Kiev-based independent think tank.

The Communist Party, frequently an ally of the Regions Party, would score 6.1%, according to the poll.

A half of Ukraine’s 450-seat Parliament is elected by a party-vote, while the remaining 225 lawmakers are elected in individual constituencies.

The Regions Party, due to heavy support from local governments across Ukraine, is scoring much better in the individual constituencies, would mostly likely again lead to a split Parliament, analysts said. (tl/ez)