Dear
Ukrainians,
From
July
30
to
October
28, 2012,
the
most
unfair
elections
in
the
history
of
the
independent
Ukraine
were
held.
To
admit
that
they
were
fair
or
partly
fair,
or
that
they
were
elections
at
all
means
to
tell
all the people
who
corrupted
voters
in
single
member
constituencies,
suppressed
TVi
and
other
independent
channels;
all
the people
who
organized
“carousels”
and
forged
certificates
of
non-existent
illnesses
to
rig
home-voting;
to
tell
everyone
who
in
front
of
video-cameras
threw
in
piles
of
ballot-papers
filled
in
by
the
same
hand
– the
hand
of
the
Yanukovych
regime;
to
tell
all
the people
who
took
decisions
in
the
CEC
to
register
false
parties
and
use
their
resources
to
form
subordinated
election
commissions;
to
tell
all
the people
who
distributed
food
packages
and
paid
money
in
districts;
to
tell
all
these
clear
lawbreakers,
including
criminal:
“Guys,
you’ve
done
everything
right,
act
like
this
in
future,
we’re
ready
to
say
the
black
is
white,
the
evil
is
good,
and
the
people
who
rigged
ballot
are
honest
politicians,
because
we
are
all
in
favour
of
political
opportunism
and
political
expediency
and
not
of
the
truth
and
European
values”.
It
is
impossible
to
say
the
elections
were
fair
and
legitimate
at
the
time
when
every
Ukrainian
citizen
knows
that
money
and
food
packages
were
offered
to
him
and
many
people
took
them;
to
say
the
elections
were
fair
and
legitimate
when
every
Ukrainian
citizen
knows
that
power
structures
and
administrative
resource
applied
violence
to
them;
when
hundreds
of
thousands
of
election
commissions
members
took
money
for
forging
protocols;
when
every
citizen
knows
that
all
TV-channels
campaigned
dirtily
24/7 in
favour
of
the
ruling
regime;
and
when
everyone
read
resolutions
of
the
international
community
about
political
repressions
in
Ukraine.
To
admit
these
elections
were
fair
and
legitimate
is
to
fully
demoralize
the
Ukrainian
nation
and
the
part
of
our
people
who
still
believes
in
justice
and
European
choice
despite
the
extraordinary
efforts of the ruling regime to rig the ballot.
The
national
exit-poll
showed
that
73 percent of
Ukrainian
citizens
voted
against
Yanukovych,
against
his
corrupted,
bankrupt
policy,
and
that
the
legitimacy
of
his
regime
was
completely
lost. The elections outcome is a verdict for the oligarchy, its
godfather and their clans.
And
if
– thanks
to
corruption
in
single
member
constituencies
– they
implement
the
result,
if
they
manage
to
“correct”
it
by
means
of
false
protocols
from
bribed
precinct
and
district
commissions
and
to
distort
the
national
exit-poll;
if
thanks
to
the
unfair
means
they
form
their
majority
in
the
Verkhovna
Rada
that
will
be
recognized
by
Ukraine
and
the
world,
then
this
will
be
a
signal
for
all
post-communist
regimes
that
fair
elections
can
be
killed
and
that
everything
can
be
“doctored
to
death”.
Political
expediency
and
willingness
to
compromise
can
legalize everything, but where to hide the real choice made by
people? Where to put 225 files with clear proofs that massive voters
bribing was carried out in all election constituencies by all, I
stress ALL candidates from the ruling party in single member
constituencies?
How
to
legalize
corruption,
Yanukovych’s
sons,
fellows,
friends,
henchmen
and his entourage?
I
will
not
act
in the name of
political
expediency
and
I
will
not
call
the
clear
lies
the truth. These elections were rigged from the first to the last
day; and to
hide this fact means to destroy Ukraine’s future.
I
express my solidarity with the Ukrainian World Congress, with
conclusions of the PACE and the OSCE, as well as with the position of
Mr. Gross, Head of the PACE
Monitoring Group, expressed some weeks ago; and I state clearly that
73 percent of Ukrainian citizens want to remove the Yanukovych authoritarian
regime, and gave the mandate for this to all oppositional forces.
Everything that is different from the result in the elections is
rigged and forged.
I
don’t consider
the parliament, where a majority rigged in such a way will rule
despite the will of people, to be legitimate. If I were with you now
and could act freely, without any doubts I would call you for
continuous protest actions. And we together would put those
who rigged the elections to their place as we have done many
times before.
But
now,
being behind bars, I cannot call you to go out into the streets
because I cannot guarantee that these protests will be peaceful an
organized in the best way. That is why I do what I can in these
conditions. I go on hunger strike to protest against the vote rigging
and illegitimacy of the parliament. I know and I believe that most
Ukrainians will understand and support me,
Yours,
Yulia
Tymoshenko
