Tymoshenko has urged the president to call off the election and her bloc has launched a court action suspending preparations. Several of her supporters converged on the Central Election Commission headquarters and scuffled with police.
The National Security Council, chaired by the president, ordered the government on Monday to allocate 417 million hryvnias ($85 million) in election finance from a reserve fund.
But Tymoshenko refused to provide government approval.
"When every kopeck is accounted for, when every hryvnia is critical to act against the world financial crisis, spending half a billion hryvnias on a reckless election is nothing other than acting against the national interest," she said.
Now the Delays Begin
Now that Yushchenko has dissolved the Rada and called for early elections, Tymoshenko has begun taking action to delay it. From Kyiv Post, Tymoshenko has refused to fund early elections claiming that the money is needed to deal with the economic crisis. However, as reported in Dzerkalo Tyzhnia, the minister of justice does not think there is a chance that the presidential decree will be anulled.
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