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Hephaestion
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 Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 4:51 pm Post subject: Ukraine's governing coalition collapses |
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ruh-roh!
| Quote: | Ukraine's pro-Western coalition collapsed Tuesday, paving the way for complicated coalition talks or yet another early parliamentary election.
The nine-month-old alliance composed of parties loyal to Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko and his 2004 Orange Revolution partner, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, fell apart following months of infighting between the two leaders. They have become fierce rivals ahead of a presidential election scheduled for 2010.
It is the latest setback in the country's four-year-old embrace of democracy, amid growing tensions with Russia following its war with Georgia last month. Ukrainian politicians are split between those condemning the Kremlin and determined to push for membership in NATO, and those weary of antagonizing their giant neighbor.
"I officially announce the termination of the democratic coalition in the Verkhovna Rada," parliament speaker Arseniy Yatsenyuk told legislators, referring to the Ukrainian legislature. "It is yet another democratic challenge, but I hope that together we will overcome this challenge."
The parliament now has 30 days to form a new coalition; if it fails, a new election will be called. That would be the third parliamentary vote in as many years and another blow to hopes for quick reforms in Ukraine and its integration with the West, which both leaders campaigned for. |
But.... who will fight the evil homosexuals?! Let's hope 'democracy' gets back on its feet SOON! 
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Tehanu
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So the Ukrainian election looks to be going towards a pro-Russian (whatever that means, a.k.a. not Orange Revolution) candidate. Anyone been following this? I confess to having somewhat lost track of what's been going on for the last year or two ...
| Quote: | Exit polls showed pro-Russian candidate Viktor Yanukovych with a narrow lead in Ukraine’s presidential runoff, a result that would close the book on Ukraine’s pro-Western Orange Revolution but raise the risk of postelection unrest.
Yanukovych went ahead and declared victory, but his opponent Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, a leader of Orange forces, rejected the exit poll data and said Sunday’s race was too close to call.
... Tymoshenko’s impassioned leadership of the 2004 Orange protests made her an international celebrity, and she fought hard in recent weeks to rekindle the heady emotions those days. At one point she debated an empty lectern to dramatize her opponent’s refusal to debate her.
... Ukraine has been among the hardest-hit nations in the global credit crunch. Its currency crashed in 2008, wiping out almost half of people’s savings, and the International Monetary Fund had to step in with a $16.4 billion bailout. GDP plunged more than 14 per cent in 2009 and the country is expected to have only anemic growth this year, according to the World Bank.
... If Yanukovych wins, it will be an impressive reversal of fortune. During the 2004 protests, foes cast him as a Kremlin lackey. But he battled back, serving for a time as prime minister under his main Orange adversary, Yushchenko.
He gained ground as voters said they were weary of broken promises, a dysfunctional economy and political chaos under the Orange government. |
Toronto Star. |
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TS.
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Summary of the last five years:
- Despotic politicians promise stability, rig election, tossed out by US backed "revolution"
- Corrupt democratic and pro-western politicians are corrupt, people become disenchanted
- Despotic politician stages comeback promising stability
In five years, wash, rinse, repeat.
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Hephaestion
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Ukraine's Tymoshenko drops legal challenge on election
| Quote: | Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko on Saturday dropped her legal case challenging the election of rival Viktor Yanukovich as president, saying the court could not be trusted to reach a fair verdict.
The about-turn by the fiery Tymoshenko left the way clear for Yanukovich to be inaugurated as president on February 25 as scheduled. His first announced trip abroad as president will be to Moscow, according to comments by his party and the Kremlin.
The charismatic 49-year-old prime minister, who had alleged vote cheating by her opponent in the February 7 runoff and had been pressing for a new round of voting, said she withdrew her case as the court had refused to study the evidence put before it.
She insisted Yanukovich had not been legitimately elected. "It became clear to us that the court has not given itself the aim of establishing the truth," she told the Higher Administrative Court. "Under these circumstances, we simply do not see the reason for continuing with this case being considered. We are withdrawing our suit." |
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