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Yushchenko declares will run for 2nd term as Ukraine's president

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Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko announced on Saturday he will run for a second term in elections scheduled for January 2010.

KIEV, July 18 (RIA Novosti) - Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko announced on Saturday he will run for a second term in elections scheduled for January 2010.

"I want to officially announce that I will run in the elections for president of Ukraine," Yushchenko said.

Although he is polling in the low single-digits, the president said he had no doubt he would win.

"You and I will win, like in 2004," Yushchenko told supporters before climbing Mount Goverla as part of events to mark the anniversary of Ukraine declaring its sovereignty.

The election campaign is due to start in mid-September, although it could be shortened, and the polling date set for 17 January, 2010. Surveys show the front-runner is Party of Regions leader Viktor Yanukovych with about 25% support, while Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko is on 15%.

Yanukovych was declared winner of the 2004 presidential poll but the result was overturned as rigged following the protests of the so-called Orange Revolution. Yushchenko won the rerun of the vote and named Tymoshenko his prime minister, although the two have since become bitter rivals.

Tymoshenko said last month that Yushchenko could not win reelection even if she and her party supported him.

 

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