Hanne Severinsen: Party of Regions trying to repeat 2004

Advisor to Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko Hanne Severinsen believes the Party of Regions is attempting to create the same conditions for election fraud as in 2004.

"Unfortunately, the Party of Regions, as in 2004, is trying to create conditions for vote fraud: thus, I’d like to call on the President of Ukraine, as the guarantor of the Constitution, to veto the amendments we’ve referred to and I’m calling other political forces in Ukraine who don’t have broad inter-party support to abstain from voting on the proposed amendments to the presidential election law," announced Hanne Severinsen.

As reported, on February 3, parliament adopted in whole the draft law "On amending the Law of Ukraine ‘On elections of the President of Ukraine’", which was submitted by the Party of Regions. Two hundred thirty three members of parliament voted for it.

Yulia Tymoshenko gave a public statement in which she stressed: "I want the entire world to know who and on what grounds are they ruining the sprouting shoots of democracy in Ukraine. I want the entire world to know that fair elections in Ukraine have come to an end. And I want the entire world likewise, as all civil society organizations, all democratic people of our country, to give their personal assessment."

"I will fight for the law to remain in the edition it was earlier and for elections in the country to take place," added Yulia Tymoshenko.