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The CEC has processed 100% of the voting protocols from December 26. According to preliminary data, 51.99% of voters cast their votes for Viktor Yushchenko, while his opponent was supported by 44.19% of citizens. \n
675,785 or 90.71% of Volyn residents supported the candidacy of Viktor Yushchenko in the repeat vote of the second round of the Ukrainian Presidential elections. Viktor Yanukovych received 7.01% of the vote in Volyn. His largest number of supporters lives in Lutsk – 10.

The Orange Marathon has started on Teatralnyi Maidan in Lutsk. About a thousand people have gathered here, joining the action "Let's Meet Victory Together" organized by the coalition Power of the People. The number of people is increasing every minute.
The faction of the People's Agrarian Party of Ukraine at the beginning of the 7th session of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of the 4th convocation intends to work with a membership of 33 people's deputies.
Non-affiliated people's deputies of Ukraine Oleh Zarubinsky, Volodymyr Kafarsky, Vitaliy Oluyko and Serhiy Shevchuk joined the faction of the People's Agrarian Party of Ukraine, and deputy Volodymyr Ryabika joined the "Yedyna Ukraina" faction.
By the end of the 6th session of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, People's Deputy Ihor Yeremeyev will perform the duties of the leader of the NAPU faction instead of Mykhailo Hladii.
Yushchenko: Dear community, dear Ukrainian people, first of all I would like to congratulate you on the start of the New Year holidays, yesterday was a wonderful Christian holiday of Saint Nicholas, I hope he visited every family, every home, because I am convinced that the Ukrainian people were especially…
Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma signed a series of personnel decrees on Friday evening. \n \nAccording to the press service of the head of state, Kuchma dismissed Minister of Agrarian Policy Viktor Slauta from his post.
Director of the Amsterdam laboratory "Bio Detection Systems," professor of environmental toxicology Abraham Brouwer determined which dioxin poisoned candidate Viktor Yushchenko.
The issue of sending an additional over 1000 observers from Poland to monitor the course of the presidential elections in Ukraine was discussed during a working meeting in Lviv between representatives of the Ukrainian People's Party and the Polish party "Law and Justice".