Soundbytes from Zinchenko's Press Conference
Sunday, December 26, 2004 at 06:37PM
Dan McMinn in 33) Dec 2004 Pres. Election
Yushchenko's campaign manager Oleksandr Zinchenko just gave a press
conference that mostly concerned Yushchenko's plans for the future.
Some soundbytes:
- The results of the Yushcheko Campaign's parallel vote count should be released soon.
- About the Prosecutor General's new plans to hold eastern
government bodies accountable for threats of secession: He should act
in accordance with the law - subject them to political and criminal
liablility according to Artical 5 of the constitution.
- In answer to the question when will Yushchenko go out on
Maidan, and does he already believe he's won?: He has every reason to
believe he won. According to exit polls he's won by a wide margin, and
he stated himself that the CEC results to the contrary in round two
only stated Yanukovych won due to massive falsification.
- The Orange Revolution will be entered into Ukrainian history
and World history. The response from the world community to the events
has been fantastic.
- After much waffle and a promise to give his personal opinion
as a politician and not as Yushchenko's campaign manager, Zinchenko
avoided the question about whether the Constitutional Reform, voted on
by opposition deputies as a compromise to allow an Election Reform bill
to pass, will actually occur. He instead said he thought the whole
Constitution should be altered fundamentally, not just amended, in
order to further advance Ukrainian civil society.
- Russia should know that Ukraine no longer fears it, there is no longer any subconscious fear in Ukraine of foreign countries.
- What about Yanukovych in the opposition? Zinchenko not sure he
will be any sort of leader in the new opposition. But the opposition
will include rich, powerful men. Yushchenko and his supporters should
not "become drunk on victory" but should prepare themselves for a lot
of hard work.
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