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October 15th, 2017 
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nsnbc : Yulia Tymoshenko the leader of Ukraine’s Batkivshchyna party, ex-Prime Minister, and controversially, ex-convict jailed on corruption charges, who was released during the 2014 riots confirmed that she will run for the president of Ukraine.
Ex-Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko attends the National Prayer Breakfast on Feb. 4, 2016 in Washington, D.C.
Tymoshenko, on Friday, confirmed what many had expected, when she announced that she will be running in the 2019 presidential elections. She made her announcement on NewsOne TV saying she will run for president to “lift Ukraine from its knees”.
It will be the third time that Tymochenko runs for the office. She lost to the now ousted ex-President Viktor Yanukovych in 2010 and came second after current President Petro Poroshenko in the May 25, 2014 election held after Yanukovych fled to Russia following the so-called 100-day EuroMaidan Revolution – by others described as foreign-backed coup.
Tymoshenko, who isn’t only an e-PM but also an ex-convict who runs for the presidency, was released from jail during the 2014 Euromaidan riots.
After the 2010 elections which she lost to Yanokovich she was confronted with a number of criminal charges. On October 11, 2011 – in best oligarchical style – she convicted of embezzlement and abuse of power. She was sentenced seven years in prison and ordered to pay the state $188 million. Tymoshenko has always maintained the charges were trumped up and politically motivated.
Tymoshenko after her release from jail en route to the Euromaidan riots.
Poroshenko – whose administration is also troubled by corruption charges and attempts to avoid the establishment of independent corruption courts – is yet to officially announce if he will run for re-election. Ukrainian media, including Ukrainska Pravda, reported recently that his office was already preparing for the run.
Tymoshenko is one of the country’s most high-profile and long-running political figures. She entered politics in the 1990s as an ally of ex-Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko, who was convicted of money laundering, extortion and wire fraud.
He served more than eight years in U.S. federal prison. Tymoshenko is widely perceived as one of Washington’s favorites and she has close ties to the likes of George Soros.
During her two decades in the Ukrainian politics, Tymoshenko has been a lawmaker, a prime minister, a presidential candidate, and a convict jailed for abuse of office by her political opponent, and she has also shown a – some say dangerously – radical aversion against Russia and Ukraine’s Russian-speaking population in the rebelling eastern Ukrainian Donbas region.
A leaked phone conversation from 2014 revealed that she proposed to “grab guns and kill damn Russians”. The former Ukrainian Prime Minister also said, very diplomatically:
“Ukrainians must take up arms against the Russians so that not even scorched earth will be left where Russia stands”. It’s an attitude that may be acceptable in Washington but one that raises eyebrows in Berlin and Paris who would have to live with the “fallout” of Tymoshenko’s radicalism.
However, polls show that Tymoshenko has a realistic chance of winning the presidential elections. According to a poll taken in May by the Rating polling agency, Tymoshenko would get 12.4 percent of the votes if the election was held at the time, while Poroshenko would get only 9.5 percent. A different poll by Social Monitoring Center and the Oleksandr Yaremenko Ukrainian Institute of Social Studies in July also put Tymoshenko slightly ahead of Poroshenko: 11.2 percent would prefer her as president, comparing to 9.5 percent who chose Poroshenko.
CH/L – nsnbc 15.10.2017
Source Article from https://nsnbc.me/2017/10/15/ex-prime-minister-and-convict-yulia-tymoshenko-to-run-in-ukrainian-presidential-election/
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