Yanukovich set to win next presidential election and build “new Ukraine”
"Ukrainians have only several more months to wait and live through. We will gather our strength, draft a programme, tell people the truth, restore order and build a strong country," Yanukovich said during a telephone conference with Komsomolskaya Pravda in Ukraine newspaper readers on Wednesday.
He believes that "by voting people will put an end to the rule of adventurers who have been fooling 47 million Ukrainians for five years" and still "hope to deceive people and stay in power using lies, populism and new political methods obtained in the West".
According to Yanukovich, "authorities do not work but settle scores among themselves".
He accused President Viktor Yushchenko and Prime Minister Yulia Timoshenko of being "absolutely inefficient".
What they do is "awkward, spontaneous, not systemic and, as a result, there is chaos in finances, economy and life in Ukraine," he said.
The presidential election is scheduled for January 17, 2010; Kazinform cites Itar-Tass. See www.itar-tass.com for full version.