The controversial politician Yulia Tymoshenko has her candidacy in the presidential election in Ukraine on 25 May confirmed. The Federal Government had only just been critical of the long time imprisoned ex-Prime Minister.
Ex-Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko wants to compete in the presidential election in Ukraine. This was confirmed by the politician on Thursday told journalists in Kiev.
On 25 May, in Ukraine a successor Viktor Yanukovych determined who had been dismissed from a few weeks ago by the Office. Currently holds interim president Alexander Turchinov in Kiev’s position. Turchinov has long been a faithful followers Yulia Tymoshenko.
Some observers suspect already, the office which he holds at present, might one day take the woman who was long an icon of the Ukrainian opposition movement and with the Chancellor had recently met at a meeting of the EPP in Ireland.
The 53-year-old has returned a few weeks ago in active politics. Before that, she sat for a dubious accusation under ex-President Yanukovych in prison. In the wake of political upheaval in Ukraine she was released after years of detention and medical treatment recently because of a back injury in Berlin.
However, Tymoshenko is also controversial in the West. Only on Wednesday , the Federal Government had been critical of them. Previously, excerpts were published from a recorded through phone call. It Tymoshenko had obviously told overlooking the Russian leader Vladimir Putin and the annexation of the Crimea by Moscow that she was ” willing to take a machine gun and this bastard to shoot a bullet in the head ” .
Tymoshenko wants to be on 29 March at a convention of their Fatherland Party ( Fatherland ) be confirmed by the delegates . In surveys, the politician is on par with ex-boxing champion Vitali Klitschko in second place , but behind that of the billionaire Pyotr Poroshenko .
The pro-European politician was in 2004 , together with the future President Viktor Yushchenko at the top of the Orange Revolution in their country. 2010 Tymoshenko had lost the runoff election for the presidency against Yanukovych.
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