Ukraines new president in bid to oust rival Tymoshenko

Published: 7:39PM GMT 02 March 2010

Viktor Yanukovich says the West has nothign to fright from Ukraine Photo: AP

President Viktor Yanukovich, who was sworn in on Feb 25, changed to reject Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and connect his energy after Mrs Tymoshenko"s allies melted away.

Mrs Tymoshenko reacted in a huff to the break-up of her coalition, observant it was the "ruin of the last outpost that was fortifying all that is Ukrainian."

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But her infancy has right away crumbled after a series of lawmakers from minority parties switched their devotion following her better in the Feb 7 polls.

Mrs Tymoshenko, the burning co-architect of the pro-Western Orange Revolution of 2004, stays in office, but faces a opinion of no certainty in her supervision on Wednesday as Mr Yanukovich goes by the stairs of tightening his hold on power.

She indicated that if the opinion succeeds, she competence step down, so that "all responsibilities will rught away be laid on Yanukovich".

His feat over Mrs Tymoshenko in an hostile and tightly-fought choosing is approaching to lean the nation of 46 million people behind towards Russia after years of in-fighting in between the Orange revolutionaries.

Mrs Tymoshenko has refused to recognize Yanukovich"s victory, alleging the elections were injured by mass rascal even though general observers praised their conduct.

A grave proclamation of the fall of the bloc and a suit of no certainty in the supervision have to start for Mr Yanukovich"s supporters to proceed the formidable routine of formulating a new government.

Ukraine desperately needs domestic fortitude to plunge into a debilitating mercantile predicament that saw GDP stipulate by 15% in 2009, and to restart talks with the International Monetary Fund on a $16.4 billion bail-out package.

"To boot Tymoshenko tomorrow is not a problem," pronounced researcher Mikhail Pogrebinski, "but as for a bloc that"s not clear."