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...believe no one can diminish or deny the victory Ukraine has scored.' YULIA TYMOSHENKO, Ukraine politician, as her pro-Western coalition closed in on victory in Ukraine's close-run Sept. 30 elections. Tymoshenko is likely to be reappointed Prime Minister, a post she lost...
HRYHORY NEMYRYA, foreign policy adviser to Ukrainian politician Yulia Tymoshenko, a leader in 2004's "orange revolution," whose allies claim they have enough votes in the Sept. 30 election to oust the Prime Minister and form a new, pro-Western government...
...formal process of forming a government begins with constructing a majority coalition. Then the coalition asks the President to nominate the Premier, who in turn forms the Cabinet. Said Tymoshenko to TIME: "Now we have not only to contemplate the Cabinet's first steps, but also watch very carefully how the coalition will be shaping up." This time, comments Nebozhenko, the process will be turned inside out: the President and his Premier may have to make a deal on the cabinet first before building a coalition. Fighting over the Cabinet jobs is where the Oranges are very likely to fall...
...Part of that inner-Orange rift could stem from Tymoshenko's previous agreement to cede the Speakership of the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's unicameral parliament, to Yushchenko's forces. Now, however, with former Speaker Volodymir Lytvyn's bloc having made it back into parliament, Tymoshenko might co-opt his tiny faction as a makeweight, and give him the speakership as a "balancing" force. However, with their dramatic neck-to-neck racing, Yanukovych still retains a chance to get ahead of Tymoshenko and finish first. In this case, though, "makeweights" of the Lytvyn block and the Communist party who is also...
...Since they lost the presidency to Yushchenko in December 2004, Yanukovych and PR have often threatened get it back through an early presidential election. But now the specter of such an election arises instead from an unexpected corner: that of the ever-ambitious Tymoshenko feeling that she would surely carry it in the runoff. Fighting for the presidency - and restoring the functions it was forced to cede to the Rada in 2005 - might prove more alluring to her than holding a premiership stripped of control over key positions and issues...