The next presidential elections in Ukraine should take place on
January 17, 2010, and acting Ukrainian President Viktor Yuschenko is
not intending to appeal to the Constitutional Court on the issue,
Viktor Baloha, the head of the presidential secretariat, has said in an
interview with the Kommersant-Ukraine newspaper, published of Friday.
"About the date set by the Constitution - January 17, 2010 - I have no doubts," Baloha said in the interview, Interfax-Ukraine reported.
Baloha said the president was not intending to appeal to the Constitutional Court on the issue of setting the date of elections.
"The Verkhovna Rada should schedule elections, and I do not think another date will be set," he said.
"The
president of Ukraine has never violated the Constitution and the laws
of Ukraine while performing his functions. And the statements of Petro
Symonenko, a member of the actual democratic coalition (the Communist
Party leader), as due to him coalition voting in the parliament is
performed, are easy to explain. Symonenko was so inspired by fulfilling
Tymoshenko's orders (Ukrainian Premier Yulia Tymoshenko), that the
voters will soon start wondering if he is the member of the
Batkivschyna Party (the leader of which is Yulia Tymoshenko) or the
leader of the Communist Party.
"Regarding those violations
Symonenko talked about today, including the appointment of governors
and changes in the membership of the National Security and Defense
Council, then [President] Viktor Yuschenko did them in response to the
humble requests of Tymoshenko, who wanted so much to become prime
minister," Baloha said.
