KIEV, December 19 (RIA Novosti) - Leader of the Ukrainian opposition Viktor Yanukovich, who lost to Viktor Yushchenko in the 2004 presidential election, predicted Monday that the political parties who supported him would come to power after the country's parliamentary elections in spring.
"We will try to take power in our hands from April 2006 and establish order in the country," Yanukovich, who leads the Party of the Regions, told a news conference.
In highly critical remarks about the state of the country, which is currently embroiled in a dispute over natural gas prices with Russia, Yanukovich said Ukraine was in a critical situation. "If the current authorities receive the support of the people and continue the course they have pursued this year, it will be hard to imagine even in a nightmare what could happen with our state," he added.
