Ukraine Today - An Independent Political Review

Looks like a rebellion is brewing NUNS (Our Ukraine and Peoples'Self Defence) are having second thoughts about the strategic direction that Yushchenko has taken Ukraine. Foreign Notes reports Representatives of six of the nine political forces that form NUNS have responded to President's statements that NUNS deputies do not want to renew the democratic coalition with BYuT, and that parliamentary elections remain the only way out of the crisis. They declared: "We, the leaders of the majority of the political forces on which the NUNS bloc and fraction is based, are extremely surprised by the president's assertion about "the absence of trust in Yulia Tymoshenko" and about the disinclination of the NUNS fraction to return to the democratic coalition." They accuse the NUNS leadership of avoiding party meetings because: "the puppet-masters from Bank Street [pres's secretariat] are fearful that at the first sitting of the fraction a decision will be ap...

There was an interesting news report on the voting of finances for the election. If you have not got the money then you can not hold an election. It appears that although there is not a majority of members of Parliament prepared or able to support the formation of a parliamentary majority government, a majority are also not prepared to support the holding of fresh elections at this present time. The President's faction OU-PSD are not united in supporting Yushchenko's destabilization plan. There is nothing new about minority governments. As long as Julia has the support and vote of confidence of a majority of the Parliament Yushchenko is caught between two different points of reality. The Constitutional "Imperative Mandate" and the will of individual members of parliament In 2007 we saw Yushchenko unconstitutionally dismiss the parliament because individuals were being lobbied to support the government's proposed constitutional reform which would have enabled Ukra...