Contrary to court ruling, Tymoshenko threatens to call protest rally on Kyiv’s central square, Maidan

February04201018:01

If Yushchenko signs a new bill changing electoral procedures Yulia Tymoshenko says she will appeal to Ukrainians to protest on the streets, she told journalists Feb. 4.

“If the bill is signed by the president and if we fail to ensure an honest election, we will call on the citizenry to rise and protest on Maidan,” she warned.
“I won’t let them distort the vote by using the administrative resource,” she added.
Had Yanukovych been sure of his win, he wouldn’t have initiated the new election bill, the premier said.
“He is too aware that without vote-rigging he won’t win. And I would like to warn that it will all end up in the 2004 Maidan. If, due to electoral fraud, they falsify the vote, the legitimacy of a new president will not be recognized in Ukraine and in the world,” Tymoshenko said.
“If Yanukovych is after vote-rigging, he will get the reaction he hadn’t seen, even in 2004,” she said.
Tymoshenko appealed to Viktor Yushchenko, saying they were together in 2004 opposing similar dirty technologies.
Recall that the Kyiv District Administrative Court banned political parties to hold rallies on Kyiv’s central square, Maidan.