Tymoshenko Says She Expects to Be Premier
From Times Wire Reports
Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko, who roused vast crowds during protests against election fraud, said she believed she would be named prime minister once President-elect Viktor Yushchenko was inaugurated.
Tymoshenko, 44, a former deputy prime minister, is seen as one of several possible candidates for the post. Other front-runners are businessman Petro Poroshenko, a close aide of Yushchenko in the Our Ukraine party and head of parliament’s budget committee; Socialist Party leader Oleksandr Moroz; and technocrat Anatoly Kinakh.
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