Yulia Tymoshenko’s “silver bullet”
We now know that Yulia Tymoshenko is not superstitious. She regards the fact that the creation of the parliamentary opposition coincided with a solar eclipse as a signal that “the shadow government that is covering the sun is beginning its departure from power.” According to her, during the eclipse “the werewolves take on their real appearance, and the opposition will be like a silver bullet illuminating this shadow.”
Meanwhile, the size of the “silver bullet” is not all that impressive. The opposition includes the BYuT fraction, two members of the Socialist Party fraction — Yosyp Vinsky and Halyna Harmash - but no one from Our Ukraine. Replying to journalists’ questions about the number of members in the parliamentary opposition, Tymoshenko said the number will be revealed after all the legal procedures are completed in order for the deputies who have left the BYuT fraction to be stripped of their deputy mandates, “so that they will leave the bounds of parliament.”
According to Tymoshenko, this work will begin soon. “Then we’ll count the true warriors,” she emphasized. Tymoshenko also admitted that the opposition is planning to make sure that “our team doesn’t work long” in the opposition, adding that the day the parliamentary opposition was created is the “beginning of Yanukovych’s departure from power.” In his turn, Vinsky pointed out that the members of the newly-created opposition are launching complex work aimed at “saving Ukraine from regressing to a totalitarian regime”.
The activity of the parliamentary opposition will be controlled by a regulation that states that the ruling organs of the opposition are the general assembly, the presidium, and the leader of the parliament opposition. As expected, Tymoshenko is the opposition leader. Oleksandr Turchynov, Mykola Tomenko (BYuT) and Yosyp Vinsky (SPU) have been elected deputy leaders. According to Mrs. Tymoshenko, three deputy leaders’ positions remain vacant because “we’re looking” to increase the number of opposition members.
Meanwhile, Our Ukraine has not justified Yulia’s hopes. “Our Ukraine has never participated in the process of creating such an inter-fractional union,” MP Borys Bezpaly told journalists. “I also don’t know if any members of our fraction took part in any negotiations with Yulia Volodymyrivna. Therefore, I think she should draw a strict line between facts and versions, or hypotheses. There is an objective reality. Everything else is the dreams or inventions of Yulia and her milieu.”
However, it looks as though Tymoshenko’s example has inspired the coalitionists. Anatolii Kinakh stated that by next week Ukraine will have the Coalition of National Unity. He confirmed that the agreement to create the coalition is 50-percent ready and there are no objections from the Party of Regions or the Socialist Party. The main conflicts are between Our Ukraine and the Communist Party of Ukraine. But Roman Bezsmertny said practically the same thing a week ago.
