And after the second elections she's PM with Yushchenko's support.
It must be great leading the second largest parliamentary faction - it allows her to play Yanukovich and Yushchenko against each other and always stay in power.
And let's not forget that Yushchenko's party is the third largest, so he's not exactly in the best position other than being president.
By teh way, any substance to any of this?
Prime minister of Ukraine Yulia Timoshenko did not get invitations for a session of National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine (NSDC), because no meeting of this organ in recent days was held, a REGNUM correspondent was informed at the press office of the Ukrainian government on August 14. "To our knowledge, there was no meeting of NSDC on August 13. The fact that the National Security and Defense Council allegedly accepted some decision, and the president signed a decree on this basis, was learnt by the government from the media. Unfortunately, we have to state that lie and an attempt to compromise became the only business and a daily rule of heads of the Presidents' Secretariat," they underscored in the press office of the government. It is worth mentioning on August 13, Victor Yushchenko, the president of Ukraine put into force decisions of the National Security and Defensive Council by his order that assert the order of crossing the Ukrainian border by ships and airplanes of the Black Sea Fleet and order of coordination with the competent organs of Ukraine the movements, related to activity of Russian Black Sea Fleet units out of places of their dislocation on territory of Ukraine.
"To our knowledge, there was no meeting of NSDC on August 13. The fact that the National Security and Defense Council allegedly accepted some decision, and the president signed a decree on this basis, was learnt by the government from the media. Unfortunately, we have to state that lie and an attempt to compromise became the only business and a daily rule of heads of the Presidents' Secretariat," they underscored in the press office of the government.
It is worth mentioning on August 13, Victor Yushchenko, the president of Ukraine put into force decisions of the National Security and Defensive Council by his order that assert the order of crossing the Ukrainian border by ships and airplanes of the Black Sea Fleet and order of coordination with the competent organs of Ukraine the movements, related to activity of Russian Black Sea Fleet units out of places of their dislocation on territory of Ukraine.
Nor should Yushchenko's wife go un-mentioned since her history goes back to serving in Reagan's white house.
I'll have a little NeoCon Delight with my TangledWeb please. Never underestimate their intelligence, always underestimate their knowledge.
Frank Delaney ~ Ireland
Regarding the popularity of parties in the parliament: here are the latest results on currently parliamentary parties. OU-PSD is Yushenko's block, and it's clearly sliding. Timoshenko's popularity went up early in the year when she started to give 200 USD to those who'd lost their savings in the inflation of early 90es, but dropped down as inflation returned with vengeance.
Despite Yushenko's party doing badly, probability of Timoshenko being dismissed in a short order has gone up. She wouldn't complain - no one wants to preside over an inflation. Some people are now talking of new parliamentary elections in early 2009.
