KIEV, February 9 (Itar-Tass) - Yulia Timoshenko, speaking at a meeting of the BYUT (Bloc of Yulia Timoshenko) faction here on Monday night, said she had decided not to recognise Viktor Yanukovich's victory at Ukraine's presidential elections.
"I shall never recognise the legitimacy of Yanukovich's win in such kind of elections," she said. Timoshenko assigned her lawyers to get ready for lodging an appeal in a law-court against the voting results. Probably her defence lawyer will be Andrey Portnov, MP.
Timoshenko suggested such an option as the holding of a third round of voting. At the faction meeting, Deputy Speaker Nikolai Tomenko and part of the BYUT faction came out in favour of recognizing Yanukovich's win and Timoshenko's transition to the opposition. They believe that the positions of Timoshenko are not too strong to win the law suit. However, a majority of BYUT members resolved to work for Timoshenko's win.
After the Central Election Commission has processed 99.91 percent of electronic protocols from the polling stations, Yanukovich is leading with 48.95 percent of votes after the February 7 presidential runoff, Timoshenko is second with 45.58 percent.
The representatives of the "Regions' Party" said that the law suit raised by Timoshenko may hinder the inauguration of Yanukovich for 2-3 weeks.