Tuesday, June 13, 2006

Ukraine: how to understand difficulties to form a new governement

Un article de European Forum pour mieux comprendre les discussions en cours sur la formation du gouvernement en Ukraine. Après les élections qui ont vu la victoire de Tymoshenko, ce parti est en discussion avec le parti "Notre Ukraine" du Président Iunchenko et du Parti Socialiste (dont l'organisation de jeunesse est membre de la IUSY et a parlé lors du dernier congrès du MJS) de Moroz. Les discussions butent sur la désignation du président de l'assemblée, revendiqué par Moroz.

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Socialist Party leader Oleksandr Moroz said on 11 June that the coalition talks between his party, the Yuliya Tymoshenko Bloc, and Our Ukraine on forming a new government have reached an impasse. According to Moroz, if President Viktor Yushchenko fails to intervene in the negotiation process, the talks will prove fruitless. "To conduct further talks with businessmen from politics, who represent Our Ukraine at the current moment, is devoid of any sense," the Socialist Party press service quoted Moroz as saying. Our Ukraine has reportedly agreed that Yuliya Tymoshenko should head the cabinet of ministers but wants current Prime Minister Yuriy Yekhanurov to become parliamentary speaker. The Socialist Party, however, wants the post of parliament speaker for Moroz. Meanwhile, President Yushchenko said in a radio address to the nation on 10 June that he will not intervene in the coalition talks because he "does not want to form a coalition under pressure." "I think that the politician who aspires to the post of prime minister should shoulder the responsibility for coalition building," Yushchenko noted.

Our Ukraine lawmaker Anatoliy Matviyenko said on 7 June that Our Ukraine has not agreed to demand of the Socialist Party of Ukraine (SPU) that its leader, Oleksandr Moroz, should become parliamentary speaker in a future coalition of both parties with the Yuliya Tymoshenko Bloc (BYuT). "Our Ukraine should be represented in a democratic coalition in the two leading posts -- those of prime minister and Verkhovna Rada head," Matviyenko added. Leaders of the ByuT, Our Ukraine, and the SPU held a meeting with President Viktor Yushchenko late on 6 June. "They have agreed on main principles [of the coalition] and practically eliminated [their] list of disagreements," Presidential Secretariat head Oleh Rybachuk commented on the meeting.

The Socialist Party of Ukraine has requested that President Viktor Yushchenko dismiss Defense Minister Anatoliy Hrytsenko over what they consider the unauthorized visit of a U.S. naval cargo ship in the Crimean port of Feodosiya last month, it was reported on 5 June.

The inaugural session on 25 May of Ukraine's newly elected parliament effectively launched a 30-day countdown for the formation of a ruling coalition. Deputies from the Yuliya Tymoshenko Bloc, Our Ukraine, and the Socialist Party passed a resolution adjourning the session until 7 June, by which time they expected to present a coalition accord on a new government. A dispute among deputies erupted immediately after the Yuliya Tymoshenko Bloc, Our Ukraine, and the Socialist Party -- the three allies in the 2004 Orange Revolution -- proposed that the session be postponed until 7 June. By that time, they pledged, the three groups will have agreed on the principles of a renewed coalition. The motion eventually passed with 240 votes. Dissent came from the ranks of the Party of Regions and the Communist Party, whose members argued that the Orange Revolution allies have had enough time to agree on a coalition.

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