| MP Shevchuk: Turnout Overstated By 120,000 Voters At Presidential Election Runoff In Luhansk Region |
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08/02/2010 17:22 (734 Day 08:31 minutes ago) | ||||
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The FINANCIAL -- Member of Parliament Oleh Shevchuk of the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc faction says turnout was made-up overstated by 120,000 voters to the benefit of Viktor Yanukovych, the leader of the Party of Regions, at the presidential election runoff in Luhansk region, reads a statement made by the lawmaker's press service.
"Our information is that some 120,000 voters were deliberately 'delivered' to polling stations. Deliverance was arranged not at the mass but at the total level. Regular buses were taken from their routes to carry people, taxis, ambulances, private carriers. Except perhaps catafalques were not delivering, but not for sure they did," Shevchuk said.
As to the MP, this is made-up overstated turnout was the most widespread violation at the presidential election runoff in Luhansk region.
The lawmaker stressed, Tymoshenko's team is convinced, the level of abuse at the runoff in Donbass shows voting outcome must be rescinded at a number of precincts.
"After that what we have seen now, we are sure of favourable prospect of our initiatives to rescind ballot returns not everywhere in Donbass but at least at a number of polling stations," Shevchuk added.
He is confident, if Tymoshenko's team challenges all the cases of rigging in eastern Ukraine , Tymoshenko's lead over Yanukovych could reach not less than 10%.
As Ukrainian News earlier reported, the Dnipropetrovsk campaign headquarters of Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko accused the Party of Regions of bribing 500,000 of voters in Dnipropetrovsk region.
Tymoshenko's campaign headquarters is designed to rescind the returns in the presidential election at the polling stations where Tymoshenko's representatives were not allowed to work.
In particular, First Vice Prime Minister Oleksandr Turchynov, who heads the election headquarters of Yulia Tymoshenko, says that mainly cases of not allowing Tymoshenko's representatives to work at commissions were observed in Donetsk region.
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