Fraud fear for Ukraine elections (BBC)

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By Helen Fawkes
BBC News in western Ukraine

Ukraine's opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko has said she believes that the early parliamentary ballot due to be held in September will be rigged.

Election officials have already tried to bar her party from running.

Mrs Tymoshenko, along with President Viktor Yushchenko, helped to lead the country's 2004 Orange Revolution, which was sparked because of vote-rigging.

This election was called after a power struggle between the president and Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych.

The start of her campaign was delayed because election officials appointed by the Prime Minister refused to allow her party to take part in the ballot, until they were ordered to do so by a court.
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