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"Orange" sunset
The revolutionary troika in Ukraine disintegrated
The two months that it took to form a parliamentary coalition in Ukraine were wasted. Yesterday, the "orange" forces - the Socialist Party, the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc (BYuL) and President Viktor Yushchenko's Our Ukraine - finally fell out. Now coalition negotiations will have to start from scratch and, probably, with the participation of the Party of Regions, whose leader, Viktor Yanukovych, was the main opponent of the Orange during the 2004 presidential elections.The Orange did not share the speaker's chair. “Our Ukraine” quarreled with the Socialist Party and through the mouth of one of the leaders, Yuriy Yekhanurov, called for the creation of a broad alliance consisting of the “Orange Troika” and the Party of Regions.
To save the “orange cause,” socialist leader Alexander Moroz said yesterday that he was ready to resign from the post of speaker. He demanded that coalition members divide all government positions - “from ministers to the prosecutor general” - in strict accordance with the results of the 2006 parliamentary elections. But one of the leaders of the presidential bloc, Anatoly Kinakh, called this initiative “unacceptable.” Proportional distribution of positions would be tantamount to “interfering with the powers of the president of the country,” he said. According to him, the president would lose the right of veto over the distribution of ministerial posts, which is granted to him by the constitution.
Moroz's "speaking" is a "pretext" that the presidential bloc used to interrupt negotiations on the creation of an "orange" coalition, "Miss Revolution" Yulia Tymoshenko said yesterday. The BYuT leader promised that if the Party of Regions joins the “orange troika”, her bloc will go into opposition. “Kuchma should be appointed as the coordinator (of the broad coalition - Ed. ), - said Tymoshenko. “We will consider this the end of absolutely the entire “orange” history and hopes of the people of Ukraine.”
"Regionals" yesterday announced their readiness to enter a "broad" coalition with the participation of the "orange". The leader of the “regions” Viktor Yanukovych said that his party’s consultations with the presidential bloc on creating a coalition have not stopped since the parliamentary elections on March 26. If disputes over the prime minister's seat “become a hindrance, we will have the intelligence and flexibility to look for a compromise,” said one of the leaders of the Party of Regions, Yevgeny Kushnarev.
“This is the end of the “orange” coalition, and with it the “orange revolution,” Ukrainian political scientist Vladimir Malinkovich told Vremya Novostey. -- The most realistic coalition now is the Party of Regions and Our Ukraine. Most likely, “our Ukrainian” will become the prime minister, and a representative of the Party of Regions will become the speaker: “The advantage of this coalition will be the unification of capital from different parts of Ukraine, which will avoid economic collapse. Compromise decisions on political issues will also unite Ukraine. Instead of quickly joining NATO, Ukraine expects non-bloc status. Relations with Russia will also improve, which will not sharply increase energy prices." country."
The alliance of the presidential bloc with the Party of Regions will make Yushchenko's re-presidency in 2009 impossible. And the chances of victory for Yulia Tymoshenko, who will remain the only heir to the “orange” brand, increase sharply, our interlocutor believes. But he recalled that after the political reform that came into force on January 1, “the presidential post is of secondary importance compared to the prime minister.”
Supporters of “orange” Ukraine yesterday experienced not only political, but also football disappointment. The shortened working day introduced at Ukrainian enterprises and offices allowed citizens to see live the defeat of the Spaniards with a score of 0:4 at the World Cup in Germany.