A hunger strike of former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko is a way to remind her of herself, Verkhovna Rada Chairman Volodymyr Lytvyn has said.
“It seems to me that the results the Batkivschyna United Opposition received [at the parliamentary elections] thanks to Yulia Tymoshenko, her brand, her face, her position, resulted in the fact that none of her colleagues, or at least many of them, need her anymore. Now they have their own plans and approaches,” Lytvyn said in an interview with the Rada Channel on Thursday, while commenting on Tymoshenko’s hunger strike.
“Earlier, the faction’s name was BYT-Batkivschyna, and there was Tymoshenko’s surname in it, and now it will disappear,” Lytvyn said.
According to the parliamentary speaker, today, when the election campaign is over, Tymoshenko “understands and feels that attention in her will fall, and she will remain face to face with her own problems.”
“If feels like the leaders of the opposition are not eager to bear a banner with Tymoshenko’s name,” Lytvyn added.
On October 29, Tymoshenko went on hunger strike in protest against the falsification of the parliamentary elections in Ukraine.
She also announced a hunger strike in April 2012, when a scandal emerged around alleged forced hospitalization of the ex-premier.
