Dec. 26, 2007 (LPAC)--"Instability and leadership conflict" were forecast for Ukraine on Dec. 18 by Victor Yanukovych, leader of the Party of Regions and outgoing prime minister. His party was the highest vote-getter in Ukraine's fifth Parliamentary election within three years, but -- after another two months of maneuvering -- a government coalition with a paper-thin majority has now been formed by Orange Revolution(pdf) demagogue Yulia Tymoshenko's bloc and President Victor Yushchenko's Our Ukraine.

The new Prime Minister, Tymoshenko, was returned to the premiership on Dec. 18 by 226 votes in the Supreme Rada, a one-seat majority. The Party of Regions and other major parties, including the Communists and the Socialists, did not attend the session. Since the Rada forbids voting by proxy, it is not clear that Tymoshenko will be able to transact business if even one or two members of Parliament are ill at any one time. In addition, Tymoshenko promptly announced an "anti-corruption campaign," which opposition leader Yanukovych--one of the first victims of the Bush Administration's Jacobin "democracy" coups-- charged would be a political purge.

One of her first phone calls, Tymoshenko's office announced, was to U.S. President of Vice Dick Cheney, supposedly to discuss "energy independence." In early 2007, Tymoshenko had talks with Cheney in Washington, after which she returned to Kiev and began trumpeting that the USA backed a return of Ukraine to the agenda of the Orange Revolution; including a fast track to NATO membership.