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“Hit men getting ready to seize power in Ukraine” – Timoshenko
Published: 31 January, 2010, 17:21
Edited: 09 February, 2010, 11:37
Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko addresses deputies of Viktor Yanukovich's Regions party at the parliament in Kiev (AFP Photo / Sergei Supinsky)
TAGS: Election, Scandal, Ukraine, Politics
Ukrainian presidential candidate Yulia Timoshenko has accused her opponent Viktor Yanukovich of trying to seize power in the country and promised to stop him from winning the election by any means, informs Interfax.
Yulia Timoshenko, the incumbent Prime Minister of Ukraine, maintains that holiday hotels and vacation retreats around the Ukrainian capital, Kiev, are filled up with militants ready to seize the reins of government.
“Yanukovich is trying to do the same as in 2004. There are going to be cheats in the Central Electoral Commission and falsifications at ballot stations,” stated Timoshenko. “Once again there will be ballot box stuffing, with hundreds of thousands of false voting slips,” she told in the interview to 5 Channel TV, Ukraine.
The interview has been published on the official website of the Ukrainian government.
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“Therefore, just as in 2004, we are going to be tough and tell him where to get off. Under no circumstances will he get power in Ukraine,” emphasized Timoshenko, in good time refusing to accept possibly unfavorable results of the national ballot.
Being asked how she plans to fulfill her goal, Yulia Timoshenko said that “we need to act calmly, coldly and lawfully, using this possibility to convince people to unite and really defend Ukraine.”
On Sunday during a telecast in Dnepropetrovsk, Timoshenko said that if she is to become the Ukraine’s president, her first step would be to withdraw the veto on the new budget code.
The new budget code stipulates that a part of the local taxes will remain at the local level, Timoshenko said.
”Every village, town and city will have their own development budget, which will consist of reliable income which will remain at the local level,” she said.
“This will be a budget revolution which will make our villages and cities blossom," she added.
Two candidates, acting Prime Minister Yulia Timoshenko and the leader of the Party of Regions, Viktor Yanukovich, have made it to the second round of the presidential election in Ukraine, set for next Sunday, February 7.
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Here is how I see the outcome and the future for Ukraine: Yanukovich will win the second round. As a result, there will be unrest in Western Ukraine and attempts to destabilize the country in general. East and South will not take it any more. Yanukovich has a weakness, he caves in under too much pressure, but this time he will have so much popular support,from East and South, that he will hold on. The wild card is Timoshenko. In order to appease her, Yanukovich may try to form some kind of alliance with her, however improbable. The country will continue half-functioning. Ukraine consists of at least four, or five distinct parts, differring in customs, aspirations. The productive south and industrial east want to be with Russia, agricultural west , and partly center/north want Europe. However, they have very little to offer to Europe and it cannot burden itself with territory so vast and disfunctional. Europe also cannot afford to keep annoying Russia. Despite this impossiblity, west and center, who are not self-sustaining economically are still dreaming of joining EU, as Germany and others foot the bill. These people will side with forces in the US, who would love to destabilize Russian south. And the nearby Georgia would be glad to oblige. In longer-term perspective, due to conflicting aspirations of south/east and west/center, the split of the country is probable, despite the fact that strangely Ukrainains do percieve themselves as one nation, except Crimea and the Black Sea area, Odessa, etc, never Ukrainian to begin with, but lumped with it due to geograhical expedience. I believe Ukaine will eventually split in two parts, but it may take years. Yanukovich will fail t reconcile irreconcilable and western Ukraine will split off. Yulia's pronounemens show how gloves off the situation is. Splitting off is the only healthy way out, but it won't be as peaceful, as many of us hope.
If mentioned solution is to call for divorce like Checks and Slovaks did – then the ultimate meaning is the separation between two different identities. However it is about time to note that both identities are not the only subjects and therefore the divorce won’t match the case. Russia, Ukraine, Balkans, Check and Slovaks etc… all Eastern Europeans actually do not openly locate the Jewish identity being the dominant media owner, constituent and political broker? Going on this way definitely leads to future aggravation and wastage of the present political energy, which is a limited opportunity in any historical span of time. Meaning – we may lose the chance to talk and got divorced just on account of the children.
'Agree with Count Cash this is an explosive situation in Ukraine the people must not hear the Timoshenko the rhetoric of this politicians is putting the political spectrum in jeopardy and Count Cash is right Russia is just looking from the back seat and wait what comes out I hope Yanukovich wins this time for the better for Ukraine and for the end of corruption in that country..