Leader of the Front for Change Party Arseniy Yatseniuk decided to unite with the Batkivschyna Party so as to become the leader of the opposition instead of Yulia Tymoshenko, political scientist Kost Bondarenko has said.
"As to the Front for Change, the rating of the Front for Change has frozen. We can see certain stagnation today, which is why Arseniy Yatseniuk, probably, had no other way out except to join the BYT so as to fight, not for voters, but for the leadership in the united opposition, and take this title away from Yulia Tymoshenko," the expert said at a press conference in Kyiv on Tuesday, April 10.
As reported, the Front for Change Party decided on the formation of a single list of candidates for MPs both on majority districts and party lists. Yatseniuk said that the issue of drawing up a list would be agreed with other opposition forces and announced on April 23.
According to Yatseniuk, it was also decided that "each party – both the Front for Change Party and the Batkivschyna Party – will have the right to veto each candidate for MP both on the majority and the nationwide lists."
He added that other political forces that are part of the united opposition, including the Svoboda All-Ukrainian Association, are uniquely entitled to the right of veto.
The politician said the united opposition is intending to conduct a forum on May 12, at which it will announce its further plans.
