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YUSHCHENKO SAYS HIS MAIN RIVAL WILL BE ADMINISTRATIVE RESOURCES, A SMEAR CAMPAIGN AND NOT VIKTOR YANUKOVYCH
  

Interfax news agency, Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, April 14, 2004

KIEV - Our Ukraine [centre-right opposition bloc] leader Viktor Yushchenko, who is expected to join the presidential race, has said that his main rival in the country's presidential elections will be "administrative resources and a smear campaign", rather than Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych.

Leaders of parties and factions, which are members of the country's parliamentary majority, nominated Yanukovych as their single presidential candidate on Wednesday [14 April].

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Yushchenko's press secretary Iryna Herashchenko told Interfax that the Our Ukraine leader's opinion is that no matter who the authorities' candidate is, "this person cannot be envied since he will automatically assume all the negative aspects of these authorities and take responsibility for their actions and their lack of popularity".

Herashchenko said that Yushchenko's nomination "was announced not during a democratic forces forum, as it had been declared before, but behind the scenes".

"This also serves as an indication that the so-called majority needs a new backbone following the failure of (the country's) political reform. This majority has no common ideology. It is being put together under the banner of its single candidate," Yushchenko said.

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