Yulia Tymoshenko Confirms Presidency Bid

Yulia Tymoshenko will run for President of Ukraine. Photo by EPA/BGNES

The former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has revealed her plans to run for the country's presidency during the elections in May.

Tymoshenko revealed during a press conference that she will ask delegates of the Batkivschyna Party to nominate her as a presidential candidate during the party congress on March 29, Ukraine's Interfax agency reports.

A controversial political figure, Tymoshenko ran for President in 2010, narrowly losing to Viktor Yanukovych. The following year, she was imprisoned on charges of corruption in a gas deal with Russia. Her sentence was often disputed by the West as a form of political repression on the part of Yanukovych.

Following the recent anti-government protests in Ukraine and the ousting of President Yanukovych, Yulia Tymoshenko was released from prison in February, in deteriorating health. Nonetheless, she immediately made her way to the Maidan Square in Kiev to address her supporters from a wheelchair.

Ukraine's presidential elections are scheduled for May 25.

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