Plans of Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko to protest the results of the February 7 runoff vote will worsen the split within the country Alexander Torshin first deputy speaker of the upper chamber of Russia's parliament. Plans of Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko to protest the results of the February 7 runoff vote will worsen the split within the country Alexander Torshin first deputy speaker of the upper chamber of Russia's parliament, told Interfax.

The 3% gap between Party of Regions leader Victor Yanukovych and Tymoshenko will not lead to any new results during a recount of votes, said Torshin, who heads the election monitoring mission of the CIS Inter-Parliamentary Assembly.

"The possibility of mass vote rigging is totally ruled out, given the mutual control system at the elections and the huge number of representatives of both candidates at polling stations, as well as representatives of international organizations, including European structures and the OSCE - a total of 3,500 people," the Russian senator said.

Attempts to "shower" courts with various lawsuits are "an electoral raid", he said.

"My impression is that it is a planned campaign. And I have facts that during the second round of the elections, the head of one of the candidates' campaign staff had previously prepared complaints to court where only a polling station's number and the numbers of its secretary and chairman were missing," Torshin said.

"Campaign staff in the Donetsk, Kharkiv and Luhansk regions were supposed to forward a large number of such lawsuits to courts," he said.

But lawsuits will hardly be able to change the situation, Torshin said.

"This will only deteriorate the rift inside the country, and Yulia Volodymyrivna [Tymoshenko] should realize this," he said.

However, all monitoring missions that worked at the February 7 polls unanimously agree that there were no serious faults, he added.