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Yushchenko goes ahead with his job
Ukraine?s Opposition leader, Viktor Yushchenko, forged ahead with thrashing out a new government on Thursday as the supreme court dismissed part of a last-ditch legal challenge by his defeated pro-Moscow presidential rival.
Ukraine’s Opposition leader, Viktor Yushchenko, forged ahead with thrashing out a new government on Thursday as the supreme court dismissed part of a last-ditch legal challenge by his defeated pro-Moscow presidential rival.
The court rejected two complaints about the conduct of the election from Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych.
Yushchenko, who won last weekend’s presidential elections by more than 2.2 million votes, said in a late-night television interview that his Our Ukraine bloc’s two main allies would each be offered a one-fourth share of cabinet posts.
He revealed that among the top candidates for Prime Minister was Opposition figure Yulia Timoshenko, a main organiser of his “orange revolution”.
Other candidates under consideration for the post of premier were Moroz, Petro Poroshenko, an Our Ukraine deputy and owner of Channel Five, and Anatoly Kinakh, a leader of a small pro-business party, he said.
Yushchenko, who brought his supporters onto the streets for 17 days to protest against alleged fraud that handed victory to Yanukovych in last month’s annulled polls, is expected to be inaugurated by the middle of next month. One of his priorities will be to try to heal divisions in Ukraine, with huge tensions between the Ukrainian-speaking west and the Russian-speaking east and south, a bastion of support for the Prime Minister.
