Opinion: Only Timoshenko would gain profit from early elections in Ukraine

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Yulia Timoshenko, the prime minister of Ukraine, can expand her influence, if early parliamentary elections are held. Kost Bondarenko, a Ukrainian political analyst, expressed such opinion on February 11 at a session of The Ukrainian Club in Kiev, reports a REGNUM correspondent.

“I don’t see any political force for which early parliamentary elections would be favorable, except for, probably, Yulia Timoshenko's Block. The Regions Partyis now suffering fromsinking ratings, even in Donetsk Region. Besides, there is no solidity inside the Regions Party and no common vision of how to develop further. Our Ukraine will lose even more votes — ratings of the president and his political force have not improved lately. And small political forces can only confirm the results of 2007,” believes Bondarenko. However, he doubts that Yulia Timoshenko will risk her post and allow break-up of the coalition to go on another election campaign. “She said that the political force which would lead to a collapse of the present parliament would lose,” the political analyst said.

“Elections are possible even out of nowhere with far-fetched reasons, as last year has shown. A will of the president is only needed for it. And the president can make unforeseen decisions. In fact, our law is being adjusted to what the president desires, but not on the contrary,” the expert summarized, adding that blocking of the parliamentary rostrum within 30 days can become a tool for dissolving the Ukrainian parliament.