[3] By November 2006 these five ministers were dismissed by parliament or withdrawn by Our Ukraine Bloc.

[4][5][6] Before the crisis which sparked the 2007 parliamentary election, the coalition consisted of the following 249 members of parliamentary parties: At its highest point the Alliance consisted of 260 members, and the trend was that opposition members were willing to join the Alliance, and thereby undermine the authority of the President and move towards the 300-member constitutional majority.

On 6 April 2007 the coalition's members count was reduced to 238 members:[7][8] President of Ukraine Yushchenko dissolved parliament on 2 April 2007 because he believed the government was acting illegally during the 2007 Ukrainian political crisis.

Yushchenko argued that the constitution only allows whole parliamentary blocs to change sides, not individuals deputies.

Yushchenko, Yanukovych and parliamentary speaker Oleksandr Moroz agreed in late May 2007 that the election would be held on 30 September, provided that at least 150 opposition and pro-president MPs formally gave up their seats, thereby creating the legal grounds for dissolving parliament.