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Ukraine parliament to vote on Tymoshenko as PM Dec. 11

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The Ukrainian parliament will vote on Yulia Tymoshenko's nomination as prime minister on December 11, the Supreme Rada speaker said on Friday.
KIEV, December 7 (RIA Novosti) - The Ukrainian parliament will vote on Yulia Tymoshenko's nomination as prime minister on December 11, the Supreme Rada speaker said on Friday.

"Voting on the prime minister's candidacy will take place regardless on Tuesday," Arseniy Yatsenyuk said.

He also said parliament could vote on a new Cabinet on the same day if all nominations were submitted by then.

Ukraine's president approved on Thursday Tymoshenko, the leader of the pro-Western majority coalition, as candidate for prime minister.

Viktor Yushchenko backed the parliamentary majority's choice of premier soon after it was submitted by the speaker.

Tymoshenko will need the support of at least 226 lawmakers to become premier. The coalition of her eponymous bloc with pro-presidential Our Ukraine has 227 members in the 450-seat legislature. However, observers have suggested that some Our Ukraine members could reject her candidacy.

Tymoshenko, the president's ally in the 2004 "orange" revolution, served as head of government in 2005 but was fired by Yushchenko after less than eight months in office. The two reconciled this year during a standoff with outgoing Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych, who has pursued more Moscow-friendly policies.

Yanukovych's Party of Regions won the largest number of seats in the legislature in snap elections in September, but failed to forge a majority coalition. Yanukovych, Yushchenko's presidential rival in 2004, became prime minister several months after winning the March 2006 polls.

Yushchenko called snap elections amid a protracted power struggle with Yanukovych after several members of his bloc defected to the Party of Regions.

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