Ukraine’s highly-divisive opposition leader and former premier Yulia Tymoshenko announced plans on Thursday March 27, 2014 to contest snap presidential polls set for May 25 following last month’s fall of a pro-Kremlin regime.
Tymoshenko — one of the most charismatic and outspoken leaders of Ukraine’s 2004 pro-democracy Orange Revolution – must gain her party’s consent to take part in the elections. After announcing her nomination she said two months’ time is enough to get into urgent action and take decisions that Ukraine has been waiting for for the past 22 years. We need true reform, she added.