Tymoshenko to challenge Ukraine poll results in top court on Tues.
15/02/201017:39
KIEV, February 15 (RIA Novosti) - Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko's presidential election campaign headquarters said on Monday it would contest rival Viktor Yanukovych's victory in court tomorrow.
"We are preparing an appeal, which we will lodge with the Supreme Administrative Court tomorrow," Oleksandr Turchynov, deputy prime minister and head of Tymoshenko's election staff, told a news briefing.
Tymoshenko has refused to concede defeat in the February 7 runoff vote, alleging fraud. Foreign monitors said the election was fair.
Western countries and organizations had sent a flurry of congratulations to Yanukovych even before his election victory was officially announced on Sunday, sending a strong signal to Tymoshenko, a leader of the "orange" street protests that overturned Yanukovych's tainted election victory in 2004.
Turchynov said the prime minister would request that the court session be broadcast live, adding they had prepared video material substantiating accusations of fraud at polling stations.
Yanukovych's Party of Regions, which has urged Tymoshenko to resign as premier, dismissed threats to contest the election results as attempts to delay the February 25 presidential inauguration. The party is in talks with other political forces to create a new coalition in parliament.
