Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2011-06-09-Speech-4-278-000"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2011-06-09"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Ukraine: the cases of Yulia Tymoshenko and other members of the former government (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20110609.18.4-278-000"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2011-06-09-Speech-4-279-0002
lpv:speaker	lp:Charles Tannock2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, six years on from the Orange Revolution, Ukrainian politics remain characterised by rivalry and tension. Former Prime Minister Tymoshenko and some members of the former government that she led are now being pursued through the courts for criminal acts allegedly committed whilst in office. These charges to me have a smell of being politically motivated. I fear that President Yanukovych is trying to neutralise the only Ukrainian political figure with enough gravitas, courage and popularity to challenge his authority. We should not forget that the Orange Revolution was a direct response to Yanukovych’s attempt to steal, by fraud, in 2004 the Presidential election. He was never prosecuted for that crime. Mrs Tymoshenko has substantial popular support in western Ukraine and carries the hopes of millions of her compatriots with her. It is very curious that the latest charges relating to fraud against the medicines budget were not levelled against Zinovii Mytnyk, the Deputy Minister for Heath at the time, who signed off on the deal, because he has now re-emerged, curiously, as the new Health Minister in Yanukovych’s Government. If Yanukovych wants to reduce Mrs Tymoshenko’s political potency, he should seek to do so in an open and democratic battle of ideas, not through the political manipulation of the justice system. And my question to Mr Vigenin, as the Socialist Group has links to Yanukovych’s Party of the Regions, is: do you have confidence in the political impartiality of the General Prosecutor’s Office in Ukraine? Mr Vigenin, could you answer that?"@en1
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Delegation to the EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; AFET (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 substitute; SEDE (2009-09-28--2012-01-18)3 member; DROI (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 vice-chair; Delegation for relations with the NATO Parliamentary Assembly (2009-09-29--2014-06-30)3 substitute; Delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; PECH (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 member; Delegation for relations with India (2009-09-16--2012-03-27)3 unknown; Conservative Party (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Charles Tannock,"1 "on behalf of the ECR Group."1
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