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Trusted aides of former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko have focused on securing a parliamentary majority for the opposition, even if in the process her own party perishes.
This is written by journalist Christian Neef in the German newspaper Der Spiegel. According to the columnist, Tymoshenko has indeed managed to unite part of the divided opposition into a single front, whose core is formed by her party Batkivshchyna and the Front for Change of former Foreign Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, who now plays the role of leader of the United Opposition in place of Tymoshenko. "In parliament the group must cooperate with Vitali Klitschko's UDAR and the nationalists from the Svoboda party," Neef writes, and moreover a coalition of these three parties, according to the latest polls, is ahead of the presidential party. The other half of the seats in parliament, the article says, will be filled by single-member district deputies. Tymoshenko demanded that Batkivshchyna members withdraw their candidacies if other opposition candidates received more votes, which led to the withdrawal of 26 candidacies in favor of Klitschko's party. The author points out that if the opposition gains a parliamentary majority it will be able to obtain the required minimum of 300 votes in favor of an amnesty law. If it is passed, Tymoshenko will be out of prison before the 2015 election year and will campaign against Viktor Yanukovych. However, the article expresses doubt whether the opposition will remain united after the elections: "Yes, Yatsenyuk himself wants to become president. Klitschko, with his party, has pushed Tymoshenko's party down from second place in the ratings." Nevertheless, according to the author, it is not about his demand for "European standards for everyone," but that voters watched the fights for the world championship title and "think he's a good guy." "Imprisoned Tymoshenko knows that she is making her associates hostages to her own ambitions, but she probably doesn't care," the author comments. In his view, most of the current Batkivshchyna deputies could keep their mandates, but after the compromise with Klitschko and other opposition parties many will have to step down. At the same time it is doubtful that the new deputies will later support Tymoshenko in the fight for the presidency. In addition, Neef points out, on the 28 October elections a "revolutionary event" may occur: "members of the ultranationalist Svoboda party could enter parliament. Not least, it was Tymoshenko who pulled the right wing out of marginal status. At the same time Svoboda leader Oleh Tyahnybok tries to distract attention from the fact that his party follows the tradition of the same Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) that for a time cooperated with Hitler," the article says. As reported, in single-member district No. 173, to which the Kachanivska colony is attached and where Tymoshenko will vote, UDAR and Batkivshchyna candidates withdrew their candidacies.
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