UKRAINE: THOUSANDS OF SUPPORTERS OF OPPOSITION LEADER VICTOR YUSHCHENKO CELEBRATE HIS PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION RE-RUN VICTORY IN LVIV

Record ID: 646906

  • Title: UKRAINE: THOUSANDS OF SUPPORTERS OF OPPOSITION LEADER VICTOR YUSHCHENKO CELEBRATE HIS PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION RE-RUN VICTORY IN LVIV
  • Date: 27th December 2004
  • Summary: (W4)LVIV, UKRAINE (DECEMBER 27-28, 2004) (REUTERS) (NIGHTSHOTS) 1. WIDE OF ROCK CONCERT IN CENTRAL LVIV / SUPPORTERS OF OPPOSITION LEADER VIKTOR YUSHCHENKO DANCING AND WAVING ORANGE FLAGS (2 SHOTS) 0.10 2. YUSHCHENKO SUPPORTERS DANCING, JUMPING AND WAVING 0.18 3. PEOPLE CHANTING "YU-SHCHENKO! YU-SHCHENKO!" 0.27 4. VARIOUS OF ROCK BAND PERFORMING ON STAGE (2 SHOTS) 0.42 5. VARIOUS OF PEOPLE AT CONCERT; PERFORMERS ON STAGE (8 SHOTS) 1.54 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 11th January 2005 12:00
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  • Location: LVIV, UKRAINE
  • Country: Ukraine
  • Reuters ID: LVA808NE67P0VSZRMEXCWR7S5BOP
  • Story Text: Yushchenko supporters party in Lviv as PM refuses to
    accept defeat.



    Thousands of supporters of opposition leader Viktor
    Yushchenko celebrated his win in a presidential election
    re-run, even though his opponent, the prime minister,
    refused to concede defeat. People in Lviv, in Ukraine's
    nationalist heartland, danced and watched bands play into
    the early hours of Tuesday (December 28, 2004).

    West-leaning Yushchenko looked certain to become
    Ukraine's next president, but his rival Prime Minister
    Viktor Yanukovich refused to concede defeat in the bitterly
    fought contest.

    Yanukovich, who won a rigged vote last month, angrily
    rejected defeat in Sunday's (December 26) re-run and said
    he would lodge a challenge in the Supreme Court, the same
    method used by the opposition to force the re-run.

    That threatens to prolong the nation's five week
    crisis, although Yanukovich has failed to muster anywhere
    near the popular support that Yushchenko did.

    At a news conference on Monday (December 27) he gave no
    details of evidence to back his case.

    International observers gave their blessing to the
    results of the re-run of the presidential election, saying
    it had been much fairer than the Nov. 21 poll which the
    Supreme Court quashed on the grounds of mass fraud.


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