Premier Yulia Tymoshenko left the Supreme Administrative Court in Kiev yesterday, after dropping her legal challenge. (Aleksander Prokopenko/AFP/Getty Images)
Related: Tymoshenko the Tool
The Queen of the Ukraine
“Tymoshenko’s key goal is now to stay in the prime minister’s seat"
Yeah, this was NEVER ABOUT YOU, voters of the Ukraine.
It was ALWAYS ABOUT HER!
"Ukraine’s premier withdraws challenge; Tymoshenko quits her appeal effort in president’s race" by Yuras Karmanau, Associated Press | February 21, 2010
KIEV - Embattled Ukrainian premier Yulia Tymoshenko yesterday withdrew her legal challenge to the presidential runoff vote, saying she could not win because the court refused to consider documents that she said showed election fraud....
Unlike with past elections in Ukraine, international observers deemed the 2010 election free and fair...
A Yanukovych party official called Tymoshenko’s decision yesterday “fairly predictable.’’
“The lack of proof forced Tymoshenko to admit the obvious fact - that Viktor Yanukovych won the election,’’ said Anna German, the vice chairwoman of the Party of Regions....
But Vadim Karasyov of the Global Strategies Institute in Kiev said the withdrawal - a major shift in Tymoshenko’s tactics - hints toward a possible secret deal she has made with Yanukovych to keep her Orange Coalition in parliament.
“She decided to give up her fight for the presidency to focus on keeping her seat as prime minister,’’ he told the Associated Press. “Yanukovych will become a legitimate president, but as his inauguration present he will receive Tymoshenko, a full-time premier who is absolutely legal, controls the parliament and is not going anywhere.’’
Yanukovych’s party has been trying to create a new parliament coalition that could oust Tymoshenko from her post.--more--"
I'm about fed up with the self-serving politics. You?
It's obviously important to the agenda-pushing AmeriKan MSM.
"Ukraine premier tells coalition to stay firm" by Yuras Karmanau, Associated Press | February 23, 2010
KIEV - Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, facing the imminent presidential inauguration of her rival, yesterday called on her narrow majority coalition in Ukraine’s parliament to hold firm against him.
Tymoshenko lost to Viktor Yanukovych in the presidential election Feb. 7. She contends that Yanukovych’s victory by about 3.5 percentage points was fraudulent, but last week she dropped a court challenge to the official results, claiming that the court was controlled by Yanukovych supporters.
International observers assessed the election as largely in line with democratic standards, a view that weakens Tymoshenko’s claims, but she is pressing on with the contention.
In a televised address to the nation, she called Yanukovych “a president who came to power with the help of deception . . . Yanukovych is not our president.’’
Like George W. Bush?
Yanukovych will be inaugurated Thursday. His party submitted a motion to parliament yesterday calling for the resignation of Tymoshenko and her government.
Although Yanukovych’s party has the largest single share of seats in parliament, it does not have the majority necessary to force out Tymoshenko.
Tymoshenko’s party is part of an uneasy coalition with a razor-thin majority, and many observers believe some members will leave the coalition, particularly those affiliated with lame-duck President Viktor Yushchenko.
Yushchenko and Tymoshenko were the main figures of the Orange Revolution, the huge street demonstrations that broke out after a fraud-plagued election won by Yanukovych in 2004. The demonstrations paved the way for a court-ordered rerun of the election, which Yushchenko won.
But feuding between Yushchenko and Tymoshenko plagued the so-called orange coalition and led to near paralysis of the government, even as Ukraine was hit hard by the global economic crisis.
Yeah, that always happens.
AmeriKa's evil tools and allies turn on each other once they get into power.
Tymoshenko called on the shaky orange coalition to hold the line against Yanukovych.
“There is only one way out - the unity in the Verkhovna Rada democratic and state powers,’’ she said.
Yanukovych is seen as being more friendly to Russia than Yushchenko, who strove to bring Ukraine into closer integration with Western Europe and NATO.
Yeah, that's what this WHOLE THING is ABOUT right there!
That and CONTROL of the GAS PIPELINE to EUROPE!
Tymoshenko accused Yanukovych of “anti-Ukrainian and anti-European policies.’’
If the orange coalition in parliament stays in place, it could not prevent Yanukovych from becoming president but could block his initiatives, continuing the quarreling and standoffs that afflicted the country of 47 million in recent years.
That will be good enough for the Grand Chessboarders.
Yanukovych said Sunday he hopes to form a new coalition this week. The current coalition of 244 seats includes Timoshenko’s bloc, Yushchenko’s bloc, and parliamentary speaker Volodymyr Lytvyn’s party.
I'm sure the Glob will be all over it.
