Wow, read what they do in Ukraina, when there are election irregularities. That's what I call a working opposition with balls.
DJ Ukraine Parliament Called For Emergency Session Over Vote
11/23/2004
Dow Jones News Services
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KIEV (AP)--With tens of thousands of demonstrators flooding the center of the Ukrainian capital to protest alleged fraud in the presidential elections, the opposition called an emergency parliament session Tuesday to demand the annulment of official results already rejected by several municipal governments.
The Ukrainian Election Commission's announcement that Kremlin-backed Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych was ahead of Western-leaning candidate Viktor Yushchenko with nearly all the votes counted galvanized dismay and anger Monday among many of the former Soviet republic's 48 million people.
During Tuesday's emergency session of the national parliament, Yushchenko's supporters aim to vote no-confidence in the election commission and annul the official results.
If the parliament doesn't take action to solve the crisis, "we will have no choice but to block roads, airports, seize city halls," said Yuliya Tymoshenko, a Yushchenko ally.
As protesters milled outside Kiev's city council building Monday, its members inside passed the resolution calling on the national parliament not to recognize the election results.
Although official results, with more than 99% of precincts counted, showed Yanukovych leading with 49.42% to his challenger's 46.70 percent, several exit polls had found Yushchenko the winner, one by a margin of 11 percentage points.
Observers working with the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe said extensive indications of voting fraud were found, including people apparently voting multiple times and voters being forced to turn over their absentee ballots to state employers.
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