The prime minister of Ukraine, Yulia Timoshenko, said that holiday hotels and vacation retreats around the Ukrainian capital, Kiev, are filled up with militants ready to seize the reins of government, told in the interview to 5 Channel TV.
"Yanukovich is trying to do the same as in 2004. There are going to be cheats in the Central Electoral Commission and falsifications at ballot stations," stated Timoshenko, the press service of the government reported.
"Once again there are ballot box stuffing, again voting at homes, with hundreds of thousands of false voting slips and, moreover, holiday hotels and vacation retreats around the Kiev, are filled up with militants ready to any variant of the seizure of power", Timoshenko said.
"Since 2004, neither the methods nor the politics of [Viktor] Yanukovich have changed. Therefore, just as in 2004, we are going to be tough and tell him where to get off. Under no circumstances will he get power in Ukraine", Timoshenko emphasized.
Being asked how she plans to fulfill her goal, Yulia Timoshenko said that "we need to act calmly, coldly and lawfully, using this possibility to convince people to unite and really defend Ukraine."
Timoshenko also said that if she were elected the Ukrainian President, the oligarchs "would become ordinary businessmen who would work according to rules equally applied for everybody". "They will be subject to laws and not to the right of bribe. And the most important thing to know is that oligarchy is not business, it uses politics to allocate state resources for profits of definite families but not every citizen", the prime minister said. She said, "clans must be removed from the government" in Ukraine . "A puppet they are all now pushing forward as their single presidential candidate, Viktor Yanukovich, is a dangerous man because he advocates a tough anti-Ukrainian policy and tough anti-Ukrainian deåds", Timoshenko emphasized.
Department of Monitoring, Kavkaz Center
Publication time: 31 January 2010, 18:12
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