{"id":160503,"date":"2010-02-09T20:10:35","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T20:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.moldova.org\/2010\/02\/09\/tymoshenko-camp-vows-to-contest-ukraine-election-results-205966-eng\/"},"modified":"2010-02-09T20:10:35","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T20:10:35","slug":"tymoshenko-camp-vows-to-contest-ukraine-election-results-205966-eng","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/tymoshenko-camp-vows-to-contest-ukraine-election-results-205966-eng\/","title":{"rendered":"Tymoshenko camp vows to contest Ukraine election results"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

Aides to Ukrainian presidential candidate Yulia Tymoshenko say she is planning a legal challenge of Sunday’s presidential election results, which showed a victory for opposition leader Viktor Yanukovych.<\/p>\n

Ms. Tymoshenko’s allies said Tuesday she will not concede until appeals have run their course and recounts have taken place at disputed polling stations.<\/p>\n

The Ukrainian Election Commission says Ms. Tymoshenko, Ukraine’s current prime minister, lost to Mr. Yanukovych by more than three percentage points. Unlike past Ukrainian presidential polls, international monitors have praised the vote as being free and fair.<\/p>\n

The United States has also praised the vote. The U.S. Embassy said Tuesday the election was another step in the consolidation of Ukraine’s democracy.<\/p>\n

Supporters of Mr. Yanukovych rallied for a second day Tuesday outside the Central Election Commission in Kyiv to back the leader of the Party of Regions.<\/p>\n

Ms. Tymoshenko has remained silent after European poll monitors Monday declared the election transparent and fair. The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe endorsed the poll as "an impressive display of democratic elections."<\/p>\n

Mr. Yanukovych has already claimed victory in what analysts both inside and outside Ukraine describe as an astonishing comeback for a candidate who fell from grace with Ukrainian voters in 2004.<\/p>\n

Six years ago, official results showed the pro-Russian Mr. Yanukovych winning the presidency over pro-Western Viktor Yushchenko. But huge protests known as the "Orange Revolution" over reports of massive vote fraud led to a new election won by Mr. Yushchenko.<\/p>\n

President Yushchenko took office in January 2005 with Ms. Tymoshenko as his prime minister. Their partnership later disintegrated in disputes over presidential powers, and both ran for president this time around. Mr. Yushchenko finished well behind both Mr. Yanukovych and Ms. Tymoshenko in the first round of voting, and was not eligible for the runoff ballot.<\/p>\n

Mr. Yanukovych is a former prime minister himself, and was in office at the time of the last presidential election, in 2004.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>Aides to Ukrainian presidential candidate Yulia Tymoshenko say she is planning a legal challenge of Sundays presidential election results, which showed a victory for opposition leader Viktor Yanukovych.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"content_social_share":"Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

Aides to Ukrainian presidential candidate Yulia Tymoshenko say she is planning a legal challenge of Sunday’s presidential election results, which showed a victory for opposition leader Viktor Yanukovych.<\/p>\n

Ms. Tymoshenko’s allies said Tuesday she will not concede until appeals have run their course and recounts have taken place at disputed polling stations.<\/p>\n

The Ukrainian Election Commission says Ms. Tymoshenko, Ukraine’s current prime minister, lost to Mr. Yanukovych by more than three percentage points. Unlike past Ukrainian presidential polls, international monitors have praised the vote as being free and fair.<\/p>\n

The United States has also praised the vote. The U.S. Embassy said Tuesday the election was another step in the consolidation of Ukraine’s democracy.<\/p>\n

Supporters of Mr. Yanukovych rallied for a second day Tuesday outside the Central Election Commission in Kyiv to back the leader of the Party of Regions.<\/p>\n

Ms. Tymoshenko has remained silent after European poll monitors Monday declared the election transparent and fair. The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe endorsed the poll as "an impressive display of democratic elections."<\/p>\n

Mr. Yanukovych has already claimed victory in what analysts both inside and outside Ukraine describe as an astonishing comeback for a candidate who fell from grace with Ukrainian voters in 2004.<\/p>\n

Six years ago, official results showed the pro-Russian Mr. Yanukovych winning the presidency over pro-Western Viktor Yushchenko. But huge protests known as the "Orange Revolution" over reports of massive vote fraud led to a new election won by Mr. Yushchenko.<\/p>\n

President Yushchenko took office in January 2005 with Ms. Tymoshenko as his prime minister. Their partnership later disintegrated in disputes over presidential powers, and both ran for president this time around. Mr. Yushchenko finished well behind both Mr. Yanukovych and Ms. Tymoshenko in the first round of voting, and was not eligible for the runoff ballot.<\/p>\n

Mr. Yanukovych is a former prime minister himself, and was in office at the time of the last presidential election, in 2004.<\/p>\n

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