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The court suspended the Central Election Commission of Ukraine ruling that announced that Viktor Yanukovych won the election. [ 228 ] [ 229 ] Tymoshenko withdrew her appeal on 20 February 2010, after the Higher Administrative Court in Kyiv rejected her petition to scrutinize documents from election districts in Crimea and also to question ...
Supporters of Viktor Yanukovych in Dnipropetrovsk, December 2009 Viktor Yanukovych (first round) – percentage of total national vote (35.33%), 2010 Viktor Yanukovych (second round) – percentage of total national vote (48.95%), 2010. In 2009, Yanukovych announced his intent to run for president in the then upcoming presidential election. [67]
The two main contenders in the election were the incumbent Prime Minister and government-supported candidate Viktor Yanukovych and opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko. Viktor Yanukovych, who was the Prime Minister since 2002, was supported by the outgoing President Leonid Kuchma, as well as by the Russian government and then president Vladimir ...
The first presidential election held on 1 December 1991 was won by Leonid Kravchuk. Every president of Ukraine except for Volodymyr Zelenskyy has been a People's Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada prior to their election, with Kuchma, Yushchenko, and Yanukovych all previously serving as Prime Minister and Kravchuk as well as acting president ...
Viktor Yanukovych became the strongest runner-up in the history of presidential elections, while Leonid Kuchma - the only runner-up of the first round to pull a win in the second one. Thus far the top two presidential candidates always would get support of over 5 million voters each.
The outcome is seen as a compromise between the rival camps, as the new election rules will improve Yushchenko's chances of victory but the constitutional changes will enable the Kuchma/Yanukovych camp to exercise influence through parliament and the regions following the election. Kuchma granted Yanukovych leave of absence to contest the ...
In the 2010 presidential election Viktor Yanukovych was declared the winner which was labeled by some Yanukovych supporters as "an end to this Orange nightmare". [67] Immediately after his election Yanukovych promised to "clear the debris of misunderstanding and old problems that emerged during the years of the Orange power". [68]
On 8 December 2011 President Viktor Yanukovych signed the new election law. [56] Since then several parties merged with other parties. [57] [58] [59] The possibility to be simultaneously be nominated on a nationwide party list and in a single mandate constituency also was declared unconstitutional by the Constitutional Court of Ukraine on 10 ...