Yatseniuk: Tymoshenko backs nomination of single opposition candidates in by-elections to parliament
Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has supported the nomination during Verkhovna Rada by-elections at five single-seat constituencies of the candidates from opposition parties who ran for the seats in these constituencies in 2012, the head of the political council of the Batkivschyna All-Ukrainian Union, Arseniy Yatseniuk, has said.
"We had a political statement from three political forces on the nomination of joint candidates at each constituency, where the authorities stole the victory from the opposition last year, and Yulia Tymoshenko fully supports this statement," he said after a brief meeting with Tymoshenko at Ukrzaliznytsia's Central Clinical Hospital No. 5 in Kharkiv on Tuesday.
The head of the Batkivschyna central headquarters, Oleksandr Turchynov, who also participated in the meeting with the ex-premier, said that Tymoshenko stated her position in a letter that will be announced at a party congress on Wednesday.
"I have a letter from Yulia Volodymyrivna [Tymoshenko] to the congress, and it will be announced at the congress," Turchynov said.
As reported, the Central Election Commission declared it impossible to establish the results of the October 28, 2012 parliamentary elections in five single-member constituencies Nos. 94 (Obukhiv, Kyiv region), 132 (Pervomaisk, Mykolaiv region), 194 and 197 (Cherkasy region) and 225 (Kyiv, Shevchenkivsky district).
On September 5, the Verkhovna Rada scheduled the repeat election of people's deputies in these constituencies for December 15. In accordance with a resolution of the Central Election Commission, the election process begins on October 16.
The opposition plans to support candidates in these elections, who were nominated in the parliamentary elections on October 28, 2012. Thus, Batkivschyna will support Mykola Bulatetsky in constituency No. 194, Leonid Datsenko in constituency No. 197, Arkadiy Kornatsky in constituency No. 132, and Viktor Romaniuk in constituency No. 94. Svoboda representative Yuriy Levchenko will be a single opposition candidate at constituency No. 223.
