Posted on 12/26/2004 5:04:42 PM PST by West Coast Conservative
Opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko declared victory Monday in Ukraine's fiercely contested presidential election, telling thousands of supporters they had taken their country to a new political era.
"We have been independent for 14 years but we were not free," Yushchenko told the festive crowd in Kiev's central Independence Square, the center of weeks of protests after the fraudulent and now-annulled Nov. 21 ballot in which Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych was declared the winner.
"Now we can say this is a thing of the past. Now we are facing an independent and free Ukraine."
Yushchenko spoke after three exit polls and partial results projected him winning easily in Sunday's Supreme Court-ordered rematch.
"Now, today, the Ukrainian people have won. I congratulate you," he said.
Earlier, Yushchenko told journalists and others crammed into his campaign headquarters that Ukraine had opened a new era, which would include neither current President Leonid Kuchma nor Yanukovych, the prime minister and candidate hand-picked by Kuchma to be his successor.
With ballots from just over 50 percent of precincts counted, Yushchenko was leading by 56.34 percent to 39.85 percent, election officials said.
Earlier in the evening, a dejected-looking Yanukovych told reporters in Kiev "if there is a defeat, there will be a strong opposition." But he did not concede, saying "I am ready to lead the state," and hinted he would challenge the results in the courts.
"We will defend the rights of our voters by all legal means," he said, ruling out negotiations with Yushchenko were the opposition leader to win.
The Anglosaxon West is the one that believes in limited government and freedom, unlike your facist EU. America, Australia, England, Italy, Israel. All the rest belong to your facist EU.
Happy to oblige, and glad you marryed someone with some sense. ;-)
It wasn't in 2000-2001 when the standard of living plummeted, but the IMF & Soros group were happy, it was a fire sale on eastern Ukraine's assets.
Yep, everybody knows I am an Islamic and EU symp. That is why I support the French view of things against America at every turn, since it is the loci of the EU adventure and now dominated by the Islamic horror. That is why I opposed the war in Iraq too.
Sorry, but Israel doesn't quite fit in the Anglo-Saxon category in my book.
And, I'm not quite sure what you're raving about upthread. Whither all the quotes?
For Leo Carpathian and his ilk, the truth is disinformation.
Of course the EU is a NAZI plot, and Jefferson warned us. Good point.
Oh, wait - I get it. The EU is the new Roman Empire, and the coming of the Anti-Christ is imminent. Is it Yushchenko?
I just knew there was a reason I liked Israel. It's Anglo Saxon through and through, both genetically and culturally, just like me!
As for the EU, yup, ignore their leadership's words, or rather in your case, try to ignore them.
Ah, back to the Balkans, and those hideously ungodly disgustingly secularist Moslems (the most secularist on this planet), who abandoned robust faith for the abyss of the fatal attraction of trying to live out their time on this mortal coil without undue truncation. By the way, when can we expect to see "Greater Albania" emerge under the JBT regime of the EU and NATO?
In international relationships, just as in personal relationships, you don't judge your friends by how much money they give you. It always comes with a price.
This thread is turning into a veritable tour de horizon. :) Somehow we need to work the Chicoms in to achieve completeness though.
Well money is a nice calling card. With that in the offing, one would be a fool not to hospitably chat.
I wonder what happens when the south east rises in protest. I doubt they will go and storm kiev but closing off regional transport ways (roads/rail) and cutting off tax reciept funds to the gov't budget is definetely in the making.
http://www.ukrnow.com/content/view/2575/2/
"He said that the council of Kozak organizations that is made up of more than 500 groups in Ukraine and Crimea, supports Yanukovych."
P.S. I m waiting for the great jubilation after which the quiet sets in and disinfranchised start seperating.
I have no idea what will happen, but without knowing much about the Ukraine, I can't imagine Donetsk really wants to throw its lot in with Putin rather than the prospect of a better life in the West. Of course it depends in part as to whether the winner can reach out, and reassure, and seek and desire a pluralist vision for his nation, a nation with so much potential (the place as a breadbasket puts Kansas to shame, and European tourists would love Odessa), if only it got for once, just once, a non corrupt and effective and efficient and market oriented government.
"but closing off regional transport ways (roads/rail) and cutting off tax reciept funds to the gov't budget is definetely in the making. "
Are you daft? Ukraine has one of the largest standing armies in Europe and Yushchenko will not suffer 5that foolishness gladly.
PS What an Election Year!! Bush and Yush!
bmp
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