铁木申科女士是一位有争议的人物。她出名于九十年代。那时她是一位富有并有影响力的能源行业经理人。从腐败政府的同盟变为反腐败斗士，她曾因舞弊和洗钱的指控短期入狱，她坚持指控有政治动机，并最终获判无罪。但是她的经历并不是任命争议的焦点，其主要来源是她过去几星期来富有鼓动性和毫不妥协的讲演。她曾公开吹嘘，尤申科在一个他无法脱身的交易中已承诺任命她为总理。尤申科要让她知道，是他而不是她决定乌克兰的政策方向。
国家和解必需不仅仅停留在口号上。最重要的工业和财富集中在投票反对尤申科的地区。在这些地区，铁木申科更被视为毫无必要的***性人物。她需要忠诚地执行尤申科的政策，抹去人们的这一印象。
New York Times:
EDITORIAL
After the Victory Parties in Ukraine
Published: January 28, 2005
It took impressive personal courage for Viktor Yushchenko to overcome a nearly fatal poisoning and brazen electoral fraud to become Ukraine's new president. It will now take extraordinary political agility for him to begin delivering on the huge expectations that accompany him into office. He needs to strike out boldly in several very different directions: healing the geographic and political divisions accentuated by the campaign, rooting out entrenched government and business corruption, and charting a course toward eventual European Union membership without alienating Russia.
Mr. Yushchenko is off to a fairly encouraging start. His inaugural speech last Sunday was broadly conciliatory and emphasized clean government and rule of law. The next day, he took a symbolically significant trip to Moscow, where he spoke of Russia as Ukraine's "eternal strategic partner." Russia's president, Vladimir Putin, wisely extricated himself from his earlier ham-handed support for Mr. Yushchenko's opponent and the electoral manipulations staged in his behalf.
On a more troubling note, Mr. Yushchenko nominated Yulia Tymoshenko, an outspoken and ambitious ally, as prime minister. That choice is especially significant because some presidential powers were transferred to Parliament last month, enhancing the prime minister's stature. Ms. Tymoshenko could become still more powerful if the dioxin poisoning Mr. Yushchenko suffered last year should leave him with serious, lasting health problems.
Ms. Tymoshenko is a divisive figure who rose to prominence in the 1990's as a rich and powerful energy executive. She has gone from being an ally of a corrupt prime minister to a fighter of corruption, then was briefly jailed on fraud and money-laundering charges that she insists were political, and were dismissed. But the problem with her nomination lies less in these distant events than in Ms. Tymoshenko's demagogic and uncompromising speeches over the past few weeks. She had publicly boasted that Mr. Yushchenko had pledged to make her prime minister in a deal he could not withdraw. He must now make sure she understands that he, not she, will be setting the ultimate direction of Ukrainian policy.
National reconciliation must be more than a slogan in a country where most of the industry and wealth are located in regions that voted overwhelmingly against Mr. Yushchenko. It is there, especially, that Ms. Tymoshenko is seen as needlessly divisive. She now needs to erase that impression by loyally carrying out Mr. Yushchenko's policies.