Tymoshenko Promises To Settle In The President’s Office

KIEV, Ukraine -- Yuliya Tymoshenko hopes to persuade President Viktor Yushchenko to disband the Ukrainian Parliament by spring 2007, according to Ukrayinska Pravda.


Yuliya Tymoshenko in a New Year portrait
According to Ms. Tymoshenko, Yushchenko has decided to hold early elections and even had prepared a televised appeal to the nation on disbanding Parliament during this past summer political clashes.

Ms. Tymoshenko is sure the President will record another appeal in the spring.

“I will stay at the President’s office until the record is made public and neither Bezsmertnyi nor Poroshenko nor Moroz nor Yanukovych will stop me,” promised Tymoshenko.

In the article she confirmed for the first time that Yushchenko had offered her the position to chair the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC).

“Late in September 2006, after the broad coalition was formed, the President asked me to come and see him. We talked about my appointment to the NSDC, dissolution of the Parliament, promoting economic reforms, and rise in welfares. We agreed to invalidate the Political Reform through the Constitutional Court,” revealed Tymoshenko.

Ms. Tymoshenko's dream of her comeback to power has not come true. She hesitated whether to chair the NSDC as infighting within the President’s team could break out again. After several meetings with the President and his Secretary Mr.Baloha, Tymoshenko agreed.

The negotiations on her appointment to the NSDC continued until “the President began to intimidate Yanukovych by Tymoshenko's possible appointment.”

“On October 10, 2006, Mr. Baloha called to say that the decree on my appointment would be issued that day. He said, we should meet once again to discuss the details. Instead, a decree was issued on the appointment of Vitaliy Hayduk as the NSDC Secretary. I did not feel hurt having gotten used to such things. I even breathed a sigh of relief…” confessed Ms. Tymoshenko.

Earlier Tymoshenko denied the fact that Yushchenko had offered her the position at the NSDC.

Source: Unian