Ukraine's ex-Prime Minister and leader of the Batkivschyna Party Yulia Tymoshenko, who is serving a prison sentence for exceeding her authority in signing the 2009 gas contracts with Russia, has headed up the party ticket of the Batkivschyna United Opposition.
The decision was made at the party’s congress in Kyiv on Monday, July 30.
Second on the party ticket is the head of the United Opposition
Council, Arseniy Yatseniuk, Civil Position Party leader Anatoliy
Hrytsenko is third, head of the central campaign headquarters of the
United Opposition Oleksandr Turchynov is fourth, and ex-interior
minister Yuriy Lutsenko is fifth.
MP Viacheslav Kyrylenko from the Our Ukraine – People’s Self-Defense
faction is sixth on the ticket; Batkivschyna deputy leader Hryhoriy
Nemyria is seventh; opposition government leader Serhiy Sobolev is
eighth; People’s Movement of Ukraine leader Borys Tarasiuk is ninth; and
Verkhovna Rada Deputy Speaker Mykola Tomenko is tenth.
On October 11, 2011, the Pechersky District Court in Kyiv sentenced
Tymoshenko to seven years of imprisonment for exceeding her authority
when signing gas contracts with Russia in 2009. She has been serving her
sentence at the Kachanivska correctional facility in Kharkiv since late
December 2011.
On February 27, 2012, the same court found Lutsenko guilty of
malfeasance and sentenced him to four years of imprisonment. Lutsenko
was arrested on December 26, 2010.
