A blow from the inside

“Our Ukraine” stands on the verge of a split of passion around the so far only on paper of the orange coalition is heated every day. Yesterday, one of the founders of our Ukraine, the former Prime Minister of Ukraine Yuri Yehanurov announced his possible exit from the People’s Union party of our Ukraine, if his proposals regarding the coordination of some positions with the Bloc Yulia Tymoshenko (BUT) will not support the presidium of the party. Experts evaluate the prospect of his departure as a serious loss for the Orange.

The proposals of the ex-Prime Minister relate to the abolition of the moratorium on the sale of land, the adoption of a new law on joint-stock companies, amendments to the legislation on public procurement and the office of ministers, as well as when the mandatory urgent service in the army is canceled. Yuri Ekhanurov has always been a supporter of the creation of a wide coalition in parliament, but this time the alliance with Yulia Tymoshenko, he questioned. This, according to experts, predetermined its ultimatum.

The associates of Yehanurov appreciated his statement as a blow not only in the party, but also on public expectations. Member of the Political Council of our Ukraine - People's Self -Defense (NUNS) Yuri Karmazin noted that it would be better to “solve it inside the party”, and not to go out to the wide audience and “everything needs to be done to prevent the split”, and not to allow the split ”.

A more diplomatic assessment of the incident was given by the deputy leader BYUT Nikolay Tomenko. “We are with understanding that in NUNS discussions continued on the priority steps of the future coalition and government,” he said. And one of the leaders of the Party of Regions, Vasily Kiselev, commented on the position of Yuri Ekhanurov as follows: “A person demands that his problem pay attention to. His statement is essentially not a statement, but an ultimatum, and very serious. Although we are standing on different ideological platforms, I respect him as a specialist. ”

10/23/2007 / Valeria Ovsyanik / Kyiv, the material was published in the "newspaper" No. 199 dated 10.24.2007.