Ukrainian presidential contender Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko on Feb. 3 accused her rival, Victor Yanukovych, of preparing to rig Sunday's election through last-minute changes to election rules.
"Parliament has passed changes to the law … which wreck an honest presidential election, make it false, dishonest, unregulated," she said in a televised statement.
"This has been done because Yanukovich does not believe in his victory and he wants to get a result only through falsification," she said.
Yanukovich’s Regions Party earlier pushed through parliament an amendment to electoral rules that will scrap the requirement for a quorum of representatives of both contenders to approve the count at individual polling stations.
