Yekhanurov the new PM
I've been focusing on job-hunting for the past few days, so just getting back in the loop now. Until I have time for a more extensive account, here is the strait news.
Yuriy Yekhanurov has finally been been approved by the Ukrainian Parliament as Ukraine's new Prime Minister. After being rejected last week, despite having been widely billed to go through easily, he went through today. (good commentary on the rejection is here, from Kyiv Post).
The Winning Votes
[From UNIAN, via the AUR]
[1] Communist Party faction (0 out of 56 votes of MPs),
[2] Regions of Ukraine (50 out of 50), People's Party (45 out of 47),
[3] Our Ukraine People's Union (44 out of 45),
[4] Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc - (7 out of 41),
[5] Socialist Party (25 out of 25),
[6] Ukrainian People's Party (23 out of 23),
[7] Forward Ukraine! Party (20 out of 20),
[8] Social-Democratic Party of Ukraine (united) (0 out of 20),
[9] Unified Ukraine (3 out of 16), Reforms and Order party (7 out of 15),
[10] Party of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (15 out of 15),
[11] Narodnyi Rukh of Ukraine (15 out of 15),
[12] People's Democratic Party and Labor Ukraine Party (13 out of 13)
[13] 22 non-partisan MPs out of 28.
The biggest news here is that the Regions of Ukraine group, Yanukovych's crew voted for Yekhanurov in large numbers. They have unfailingly opposed every proposition of the YuGov for as long as the YuGov has existed. Interfax has it that Yushchenko struck a deal to have them act in an advisory role. That they're on board now does not bode well for the reforms needed for WTO entry(which they staunchly oppose).
All very distasteful, but Yekhanurov needed to go through. Voters are going to be pissed, though. It's too bad for Yushchenko that he has been talking so often recently about people "betraying the Orange Revolution". Blasting the mucky politicking of yesterday with that kind of hyperbole is today going to make him look like the great betrayer himself, all for just the kind political horse-trading he needed to do.
Dan McMinn
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"Ukrainian Prime Minister Yury Yekhanurov said he is to announce the composition of the new government in Dnipropetrovsk next week.
"I will announce my vision of the government, which is being formed starting from today, in Dnipropetrovsk next week. It will be a major signal for small, medium and big business and our foreign partners," Yekhanurov said after parliament approved his appointment.
The new government will be consist of at least one-third of people unrelated to politics, he said. "
http://www.interfax.ru/e/B/politics/365.html?id_issue=11387304
"President Viktor Yushchenko has abolished the positions of Ukrainian state secretary, the state secretary's two first deputies and four deputies, and the presidential first aide."
http://www.interfax.ru/e/B/politics/365.html?id_issue=11387259
"Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko has transferred some of the responsibilities of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine to his new chief of staff, the former secretary of state, who was dismissed and rehired Thursday, the presidential press service said.
State Secretary of the President Oleh Rybachuk, whose former post was abolished by the president also on Thursday, will now nominate candidates for positions in law enforcement agencies, the armed forces and other military departments, the service said.
Rybachuk will also nominate judges and members of the High Council of Justice for presidential consideration and will approve candidates for the head of law enforcement agencies in the Crimea and other regions. He will also approve presidential resolutions on awarding high military ranks. "
http://en.rian.ru/world/20050922/41476777.html