Bloomberg: Yanukovych faces challenge to deliver campaign goals
Now for Yanukovych the harder part begins, analysts say.

Bloomberg: Yanukovych faces challenge to deliver campaign goals

Feb 8, 2010 at 16:05
Feb. 8 (Bloomberg) -- For Victor Yanukovych, who won Ukraine’s presidency five years after the Supreme Court threw out his first victory because of fraud, the hard part is behind him. Now the harder part begins, analysts say. With just over 2 percentage points between Yanukovych’s 48.38 percent and rival Yulia Timoshenko’s 46.00 percent in yesterday’s vote, Yanukovych’s vow to unfreeze a $16.4 billion bailout, boost trade with the European Union and end years of political gridlock may be shelved as a battle over the election results and control over parliament looms. Read the story here.

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