UKRAINE: JUBILANT SCENES AS SUPREME COURT ANNULS DISPUTED PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION RESULT
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646783
UKRAINE: JUBILANT SCENES AS SUPREME COURT ANNULS DISPUTED PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION RESULT
- Title: UKRAINE: JUBILANT SCENES AS SUPREME COURT ANNULS DISPUTED PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION RESULT
- Date: 4th December 2004
- Summary: (W6) KIEV, UKRAINE (DECEMBER 3, 2004) (REUTERS) 1. SLV EXTERIOR OF PARLIAMENT IN KIEV/ OPPOSITION SUPPORTERS CHEER AS THEY HEAR CHAIRMAN OF SUPREME COURT ANNUL ELECTION RESULT; SLV HUNDREDS OF OPPOSITION SUPPORTERS WITH FLAGS, CHEERING AS COURT DECISION IS ANNOUNCED 0.18 2. SLV CELEBRATIONS OUTSIDE PARLIAMENT/ OPPOSITION SUPPORTERS SHOUTING: "Yushchenko! Yushchenko!" 0.50 3. (SOUNDBITE) (Ukrainian) A WOMAN OPPOSITION SUPPORTER SAYING: "It's very good, we are very glad, we didn't stay here in vain. The eventual victory will be ours and I can say that we have won already!" 1.00 4. (SOUNDBITE) (Ukrainian) MAN PROTESTER SAYING: "It was the right decision, the court has made the right decision." 5. (SOUNDBITE) (Ukrainian) A WOMAN OPPOSITION SUPPORTER SAYING: "Excellent! Good, Very good!"; SLV CELEBRATIONS 1.16 6. HAS INTERIOR OF PARLIAMENT CHAMBER/ OPPOSITION DEPUTIES WATCHING SUPREME COURT ANNOUNCEMENT/ VIDEO SCREEN; SLV DEPUTIES CHEER AS COURT RULES ELECTIONS ANNULLED; SLV INTERIOR OF SUPREME COURT/ TEAM OF OPPOSITION LEADER VIKTOR YUSHCHENKO (4 SHOTS) 1.39 7. (SOUNDBITE) (English) SERGEI VLASENKO, A MEMBER OF YUSCHENKO'S COURT TEAM SAYING: "The court's message to Ukraine was that the law exists and nobody has the possibility to beat the law or to do something illegal, and he will be punished." 1.55 8. MV MEDIA; SLV PAN/TS CROWDS CHEERING OUTSIDE COURT AND SAYING: "Well done! Well done!" 2.19 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
- Embargoed: 19th December 2004 12:00
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- Location: KIEV, UKRAINE
- Country: Ukraine
- Reuters ID: LVA5WUE5SKQITB3MANFOUFW0GPK1
- Story Text: Jubilant scenes in Kiev as Ukraine's top court
annuls disputed election result.
There were jubilant scenes across Kiev on Friday
(December 3, 2004) evening as thousands of opposition supporters
welcomed a ruling by Ukraine's top court, annulling last
month's disputed presidential ballot.
Opposition supporters cheered outside the Supreme Court
building as it ruled on Friday that the disputed
presidential election officially won by Prime Minister
Viktor Yanukovich was invalid.
In Kiev's Independence Square tens of thousands of
opposition supporters celebrated as the news of the court's
decision was announced.
Chairman of the Supreme Court Anatoly Yarema,
delivering the court's ruling after five days of
deliberations, said a "repeat vote" was required.
He said this ballot should take place three weeks
counting from Dec. 5, meaning Dec. 26, suggesting it
would be a re-run of last month's run-off vote which
opposition candidate Viktor Yushchenko alleged was rigged
by authorities.
Judges backed arguments by Yushchenko's camp, which
have brought tens of thousands out on to the streets of the
capital Kiev, that the vote had been subject to systematic
fraud.
The ruling, greeted by applause in the courtroom,
appeared to run counter to what beleaguered outgoing
President Leonid Kuchma had sought in nearly two weeks of
bitter wrangling.
Kuchma had pressed for a completely new election, which
would have required up to three months to be organised, with him
remaining in office. Kuchma had secured the
backing of Russian President Vladimir Putin for his
position in talks on Moscow on Thursday.
Yushchenko's camp, hoping to capitalise on the momentum
of mass demonstrations in Kiev, had dug in their heels in
favour of a quick repeat of the Nov. 21 run-off.
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