The Head of the CEC announced the protocol on the results of the Ukrainian presidential election. According to them, 51.99% voted for Yushchenko, and 44.20% for Viktor Yanukovych.

In absolute figures, this is 15,115,712 and 12,848,28 respectively. 2.34% voted against both candidates.

In total, 28,068,971 voters took part in the elections.

The CEC protocol was signed by all members of the CEC, but two of them, Yuriy Donchenko and Bronislav Chaykovsky, expressed their separate opinion.

CEC members insisted that the rights of disabled persons and other Ukrainian citizens who were deprived of the opportunity to vote had been violated. They believe that the CEC was unable to promptly bring to the attention of precinct commissions the decision of the Constitutional Court on this matter.

During the discussion of the resolution, Yanukovych's representative Nestor Shufrych stated that as a result of the Verkhovna Rada's decision, millions of citizens were deprived of the right to express their will, and the events in the country after November 21 were recognized by many as "revolutionary."

To which Deputy Head of the CEC Maryna Stavniychuk asked whether Shufrych had voted for the law on voting on December 26. To which Yanukovych's representative admitted his guilt.

Yushchenko's representative Yuriy Klyuchkovsky thanked the CEC for the fact that elections in Ukraine were recognized as democratic for the first time. He also expressed hope that "the Supreme Court will explain to Shufrych what the difference is between falsified and democratic elections."

After that, the CEC voted for the resolution on the election results on the election of Yushchenko as President of Ukraine. It was supported by 13 CEC members, 2 abstained.

The CEC unanimously supported the decision to publish the election results within three days.

After the announcement of the resolution, Yushchenko's authorized representatives at the CEC, Petro Poroshenko and Mykola Katerynchuk, rose on their chairs with a flag reading "Yes Yushchenko!"

Davydovych announced a break in the CEC's work until 12 o'clock on Tuesday, noting: "Let's get out of here, because the shabash is already beginning."

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Before this, for more than 6 hours, the CEC announced the protocols based on the results of voting in 225 districts and the foreign district.

At the end, the head of the CEC noted that "we won't be honest if we don't let one question be asked to Nestor Shufrych."

Instead, Yanukovych's representative demanded answers to 8 written and 5 oral questions.

Davydovych answered only the written ones. In particular, he refuted that People's Deputy Valeriy Sushkevych allegedly complained about the CEC's illegal actions regarding group 1 disabled persons, noting that he only expressed "concern" about voting by disabled persons.

The head of the CEC also denied that information was allegedly concealed about the Lviv court's decision regarding the Supreme Court's ruling on the illegal actions of CEC member Andriy Mahera.

"You know, I learned for the first time that the appellate court is contesting a Supreme Court decision, and if that's not the case, then print clearly, don't draw squiggles," Davydovych noted in response to Shufrych's attempt to correct him.

Mahera himself said that the Lviv Appellate Court had long ago "ceased to exist in nature."

Regarding the allegedly existing complaints from Ombudsman Nina Karpachova about violations in the elections, Davydovych noted that she "stated, but did not forward the existing complaints."

After that, Davydovych announced a 10-minute break.

After the break, Shufrych expressed dissatisfaction that CEC members were signing the protocol when he still had questions, to which the head of the CEC noted that this was "merely a technical procedure."

Then Davydovych lost his deputy Maryna Stavniychuk, who, as it turned out, was giving an interview to the ICTV channel at the request of the press secretary of the CEC head, Zoya Sharykova.

"We'll deprive her of her bonus for that," Davydovych joked.