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Rukh Tries to Figure Out Whose Horse is Trojan

12 October, 1999 - 00:00

Presidential candidate Yuri Kostenko said he has no intention
to cooperate either with Leonid Kuchma's campaign staff or the Kaniv Four.
He said the representatives of the both had indeed made such proposals
to him, but he turned them down. As the presidential candidate confessed,
“No posts or money were proposed, some tried intimidating me with the Red
peril, the others were urging to take to heart the interests of the state
and people.” However, as Kostenko further confessed, “We are on a different
road from the current regime because of its curtailing of democratic processes
in this country and the lack of real market changes,” reports Interfax-
Ukraine.

Simultaneously Mr. Kostenko stated he is conducting negotiations
with other presidential candidates, including Vasyl Onopenko, Vitaly Kononov,
Yuri Karmazin and Mykola Haber. Thus in mid-October we may see another
pre-election union. According to him, this will be “a coalition of national
democratic forces.” However, Kostenko said, he has no intention to invite
to the coalition his opposite number from the other Rukh and rival in the
presidential race Hennady Udovenko, whom he called “the Trojan horse of
the Right.” Mr. Kostenko emphasized that “Udovenko's main task is his struggle
against the other part of Rukh on behalf of Kuchma, rather than against
the Red peril.”

The Day asked the head of the Reforms and Order
party, which has declared its support for Udovenko in the elections, if
Udovenko could really become a Trojan horse and how Trojan in this respect
is the Reforms and Order Party? Viktor Pynzenyk said: “As a matter of fact,
I am a horse [probably, according to the Chinese calendar], but I will
never be a Trojan one.” He also said he would not like to comment on such
statements.

Deputy head of Udovenko's Rukh Yuri Kluchkovsky told The
Day that Kostenko is acting according the boomerang principle. According
to this Rukh member, “What Yuri Kostenko said is what he is himself. That
is the way he is trying to gain popularity, offending those with whom he
recently had been united.” Kluchkovsky also said that Hennady Udovenko
is not going to leave the presidential race or pass his votes to somebody
else. Udovenko has a serious chance to reach the second round, added Kluchkovsky.
However, most observes are inclined to think that neither of the warring
Rukh leaders, either on an individual basis or in some coalition, can reach
the runoff. They have less than a month to come to terms with this.

№38 October 12 1999 «The
Day»


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