YUSHCHENKO HQ SAYS CEC LOWERED THE NUMBER OF

AND INFLATED THE NUMBER OF VOTES FOR YANUKOVYCH IN THE LAST 10 DAYS

Ukrainian News Agency, Kyiv, Ukraine, Wed, November 10, 2004

KYIV - The campaign headquarters of the Our Ukraine bloc's leader
and presidential candidate, Viktor Yuschenko, reckons that the Central
Election Commission (CEC) lowered the number of votes that were cast
in favor of Yuschenko in the first round of the presidential election in the
results that it announced.

Yuschenko's authorized representative, Verkhovna Rada deputy Mykola
Katerynchuk, stated this to journalists. "We consider that the figures, the
absolute numbers of Viktor Yuschenko are more," said Katerynchuk.

He also added that he considers that the CEC's data on the number of
votes cast in favor of presidential candidate, Prime Minister Viktor
Yanukovych were inflated.  "We consider that Viktor Yanukovych's
figures absolutely do not reflect realities," said Katerynchuk.

In his words, Yuschenko's campaign headquarters will examine the
discrepancies in the vote counting that was done by the CEC and the
number of votes counted by Yuschenko's team on the basis of the
protocols that were received from the election commissions.

The CEC has given the go-ahead to Yuschenko and Yanukovych to
participate in the second round of the presidential election