Ukraine's first female presidential candidate.
There are many political views on the birth of yulia tymoshenko (Russian: юлиятимошенко).19601650. She lost her father at the age of 2 and lived alone with her mother. Her old surname is gurigyan (Ukrainian) and her father is Armenian. But some of her political supporters deny this view and think that she is a Ukrainian country. It is also pointed out that Tymoshenko's signature record in the "Group B Photo Book of No.75 Junior Middle School" when she was in junior high school was her mother's surname.
Gasoline queen
1979, Tymoshenko married Alexander Tymoshenko, who was born in an official family of the CPSU. He studied in the Department of Economics of dnipropetrovsk University, graduated from 1984, and got a doctorate in economics, and entered a factory in dnipropetrovsk as an economist.
1989, Tymoshenko entered the business world and set up a video rental chain store, which was a great success. 199 1 after the disintegration of the Soviet union, Tymoshenko, who was only 3 1 year old, established the "Ukrainian gasoline company". Four years later, her company changed its name to "Ukraine Unified Energy Company", and acquired several energy companies from 1990 to 1998, monopolizing the natural gas supply in all parts of Ukraine. 1996, becoming the main importer and wholesaler of Russian natural gas. Because of the company's rich profits, her popularity is getting higher and higher, and she is called "natural gas princess". Tymoshenko, 36, has taken control of more than 20 large enterprises, airlines and banks in Ukraine, becoming the hottest woman in Ukraine.
political career
1996 began to set foot in politics, 1997 became a member of parliament with an astonishing 92.3% of the votes (1998 and was elected three times in 2002). In the summer of the same year, she became a hard-line opponent of President Kuchma and joined the then unknown village party.
1998 as the budget director of the national assembly.
1999 to 200 1 Deputy Prime Minister of the government, in charge of the energy field.
1at the beginning of 999, she quit the parliamentary group of the village social party and set up a new group called "Motherland".
In February, 20001,the procuratorate prosecuted Tymoshenko for smuggling, accepting bribes and escaping Russian natural gas. He was subsequently dismissed from his post as deputy prime minister. In February of the same year, he was formally arrested and released after 42 days in prison. But this implies Tymoshenko's oligarchy and illegal acquisition of property.
After being released from prison, Tymoshenko's "Motherland" Party became an opposition party, with nationalism as its political slogan.
In the 2002 Ukrainian parliamentary election, the voter turnout rate was 7.2%, and he was elected for the third time.
At the end of September 2004, the Russian military procuratorate accused Tymoshenko of bribing officials of the Russian Ministry of National Defense and smuggling 3 billion cubic meters of natural gas from Russia during his tenure as the president of "Unified Energy Company", making an illegal profit of 80 million US dollars. To this end, the names of Tymoshenko and her family appear on Interpol's wanted list. On June 28, 2005, the Ukrainian Procuratorate announced that due to insufficient evidence, the Ukrainian Procuratorate had ended the criminal investigation against Tymoshenko and her family.
In 2004, the Ukrainian President was accused of involvement in the killing of journalist anna politkovskaya. Tymoshenko, as one of the tough opposition leaders, has attracted people's attention.
On June 24th, 2005, Ukrainian President Yushchenko appointed Tymoshenko as interim prime minister of the government. Yushchenko submitted the cabinet list to the parliament, and the ruling party and the opposition party held negotiations. On February 4th, she became the female prime minister of Ukraine with an overwhelming advantage of 373 votes (226 votes in favor). However, due to the national turmoil, Tymoshenko, such as the factory hijacking incident, is considered to be speculative; The people are seriously opposed. The "Yushchenko-Tymoshenko Alliance" failed after only eight months of cooperation. On September 8, Yushchenko dissolved Tymoshenko's government because of its poor work and lack of team spirit.
In March 2006, the Ukrainian Supreme Council elected Tymoshenko, and he was elected with three times the votes of others, becoming the second largest party in China. The ruling party "Our Ukraine" suffered a fiasco, and Tymoshenko began a new prime minister's campaign.
On July 9, 2006, the parliament allowed Yushchenko's "Ukrainian Regional Socialist Party" to take power.
On June 65438+February 65438+February 2007, the Ukrainian Parliament approved Tymoshenko as Prime Minister by a show of hands. This is the first time that Ukraine has voted on the appointment of the Prime Minister in this way since 199 1 independence.
On 20 10 65438+ 10/7, Ukraine held the first round of voting for the presidential election, with * * * a total of 18 presidential candidates running. Yanukovych and Tymoshenko got the highest votes, accounting for 35.32% and 25.05% respectively.
According to Ukrainian law, the Ukrainian presidential election is held every five years. Candidates must get more than 50% of the votes in the first round of voting before they can be elected, otherwise a second round of voting will be held. In the second round of voting, the one with the leading vote was elected as the new president.
On February 7, Ukraine held the second round of voting for the presidential election. On February 8, the Central Election Commission of Ukraine announced nearly 99% of the vote counting results, and Yanukovych, the leader of the opposition regional party, won the second round of the Ukrainian presidential election with a slight advantage.
Chapovar, chairman of Ukraine's Central Election Commission, said at a news conference that the second round of voting in the presidential election was valid and the final vote counting result would be announced within 10 days according to Ukrainian law.
On February 20, the current Prime Minister Tymoshenko withdrew the accusation of "election fraud" against Yanukovych. The mass media speculated that it was to avoid the embarrassing situation of being framed because of insufficient accusation materials.