The Batkivschyna United Opposition has urged the Central Election Commission to recognize the victory of opposition representatives in 13 constituencies in which the original vote count protocols showed that these candidates won.
Leader of the United Opposition Arseniy Yatseniuk announced after a meeting of opposition leaders with CEC Chairman Volodymyr Shapoval in Kyiv on Monday that the opposition put forward a number of demands to the CEC, the government and Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych.
“We demand the voting results in 13 constituencies should be based on the original protocols of the precinct election commissions,” Yatseniuk said.
“We demand that the CEC attend to these constituencies on its own, without the involvement of corrupt district commissions, which for money and through fabricated court rulings have given the victory to candidates from the ruling party,” he stressed.
Yatseniuk noted that the opposition reserved the right to pursue their demands through all available means, up to rerun elections.
In turn, Svoboda All-Ukrainian Union Leader Oleh Tiahnybok said that the opposition was deprived of not only 13 seats in single-member constituencies, but several seats on party lists, as a result of rigged vote count in these constituencies.
“Thus, they want to take 15-16 seats away from the opposition,” he said.
Tiahnybok urged Ukrainian to support rallies against electoral fraud staged outside the Central Election Commission’s building.
Meanwhile, UDAR Party Leader Vitali Klitschko said that unless the opposition’s demands are met, they would seek not only rerun elections to the parliament but also early presidential election.
