Batkivschyna Party leader Yulia Tymoshenko has said she is confident that she has enough arguments to convince Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko of the need to immediately hold a referendum on the country’s accession to NATO simultaneously with early parliamentary elections on Oct. 26.

“I have all the arguments to convince the Ukrainian president of the need to immediately begin the process of holding a national referendum on Ukraine’s accession to NATO,” she told journalists in Kyiv on Wednesday, Oct. 22.