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Yanukovich appeals rejected

By Vladimir Radyuhin

MOSCOW: Ukraine's Supreme Court has thrown out all the complaints over the controversial presidential poll last month, clearing the way for the Central Election Commission to declare the pro-Western Opposition leader, Viktor Yushchenko, as the official winner. The Supreme Court on Monday turned down four appeals by the Prime Minister, Viktor Yanukovich, who lost the December 26 vote, about irregularities during voting in some of the pro-Opposition Western regions. Last week the court rejected Mr. Yanukovich's appeals to overturn the vote results nation-wide. The court ruling lifted the last hurdle that kept the Central Election from confirming Mr. Yushchenko as Ukraine's third President since the breakup of the Soviet Union. According to final results, Mr. Yushchenko won the December 26 election with just under 52 per cent of the vote compared with Mr. Yanukovich's slightly over 41 per cent, a difference of more than 2.2 million ballots on a turnout of 77 per cent. However, Mr. Yanukovich claimed that 4.8 million in the country of 48 million had been disenfranchised, among them disabled and elderly voters.

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