The Parliament of Ukraine, Verkhovna Rada, appointed BYT bloc leader Yulia Tymoshenko as the Prime Minister of the country.

Total of 226 MPs had voted for the appointment, with 226 votes required.

Head of the counting board Mykola Shershun of the Lytvyn Bloc announced that a total of 227 Verkhovna Rada deputies paticipated in voting, of them 226 backed Yulia Tymoshenko as the premier.

Verkhovna Rada Speaker Arseniy Yatseniuk signed protocol and resolution in election of Tymoshenko as the premier.

Verkhovna Rada deputies applauded and welcomed Yulia Tymoshenko.

On Wednesday, 12 December, President Viktor Yuschenko submitted the second nomination of Yulia Tymoshenko for the position of Prime Minister of Ukraine.

On December 11, the coalition has failed to appoint Tymoshenko as the Prime Minister of Ukraine, as only 225 MPs voted for the appointment. Two deputies of the coalition factions said their voting cards failed to register their votes.

The coalition has said it distrusted the parliament's electronic voting system named Rada.

The Ukrainian Security Service has checked the system and did not find traces of interference with the functioning of the electronic voting system.

As it was earlier reported, since November 2007 Yulia Tymoshenko is the deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of the sixth convocation. She was number one on the ticket of the Bloc of Yulia Tymoshenko.

She was a deputy in the Ukrainian Parliament of the second, third, fourth, and fifth convocations.

Yulia Tymoshenko was the Ukrainian Prime Minister from February 2005 to September 2005.

Yulia Tymoshenko and Viktor Yuschenko in July 2004 had created a coalition with the name "Syla Narodu" (People's power) to nominate a single candidate for president.

Yulia Tymoshenko heads the Batkivschyna Party starting from December 1999.

Tymoshenko was born in November 27, 1960, in Dnipropetrovsk.

She has graduated from the Dnipropetrovsk National University in 1984 majoring in economics; she did her PhD thesis "State Regulation of Taxation System" in 1999.

During 1984-1989, she used to work as economist engineer on Dnipropetrovsk-based Lenin machine building plant.

In 1989-1991, she was commercial director of the youth center Terminal in Dnipropetrovsk.

Since 1991, Tymoshenko worked as commercial director and general director of the enterprise Ukrainian Petroleum Corporation in Dnipropetrovsk.

In November 1995-January 1997, Tymoshenko was the head of Unified Energy Systems of Ukraine Corporation.

From 1997 till May 1999 Tymoshenko was a member of All-Ukrainian Hromada association, led by ex-Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko; she was the party's first deputy chairperson since 1999.

During the period of December 1999-January 2001, she worked as Vice Premier in charge of the fuel and energy complex at Yuschenko's government.

In February 2001, Tymoshenko has been arrested, and then dismissed from the Vice Premier's post.

The Supreme Court has recognized her arrest as unlawful.

Tymoshenko is author of more than 40 research works and is able to speak English.