Parliamentarian of the Ukrainian Supreme Rada and ex-parliamentary speaker Areseniy Yatsenyuk intends to run president, Vesti TV channel reported.
"I am not participating in the elections, but I am going to win them!", he told journalists on May 22. Yatsenyuk is sure that those who want to change the country will vote for him. He confirmed his intention to form a political party on the base of the Front for Changes public organization.
On May 22, Yatseniuk was 35 years old. Under the constitution, the president may be a citizen of Ukraine who is 35, has the right to vote, lives in the country in the past 10 years and speaks the state language, ITAR-TASS reported.
On May 21, Prime Minister Yuliya Tymoshchenko stated her intention to participate in the elections.