Jailed former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has said Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych's appointments for Ukraine's new government on Monday represent "continuation of the policy of monarchization of the country."
“The presence of members of the Yanukovych Family in all key security
and financial governmental posts confirms the thesis of continuation of
the policy of monarchization of the country,” Tymoshenko, who is
serving a seven-year sentence, said in a statement posted on the Web
site of her Batkivschyna Party.
Mykola Azarov, who was reappointed as premier, “merely nominally
holds the office of head of government but de facto is not prime
minister,” she said.
“Today Yanukovych has in effect appointed two governments: one with
premier [Serhiy] Arbuzov, who will de facto control all the ministers,
and the other the one-man government of [Mykola] Azarov, who has a
beautiful portfolio but has no one under his control – it is somewhat
like having general’s insignia but being left without an army,”
Tymoshenko said.
Deputy Prime Minister Yuriy Boiko, who comes from the “so-called” RusUkrEnergo group, “has no real power,” she said.
“An analysis of the composition of this government once again
confirms the thesis that, in this competition, the Yanukovych Family has
defeated the oligarchs,” the ex-premier said. “Today nothing new or
radical has happened, or could have happened, because it is the Family
that rules the country today. No change is possible before Yanukovych
goes.”
