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Yulia Tymoshenko due to form new government

03 October 2007 10:11 (UTC +04:00)

With less than one percent of ballots left to count after Sundayâ€™s snap election, the Orange Revolution alliance of President Viktor Yushchenko and firebrand reformist Yulia Tymoshenko held an almost unassailable lead.
Timoshenkoâ€™s party garnered 30.83 percent of the votes and Yushchenkoâ€™s Our Ukraine/Peopleâ€™s Self Defense came in third with 14.22 percent, the figures showed.
Their arch rival, Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych, had not yet conceded defeat.
But his Regions Party, while the biggest in parliament with more than 34.24 percent of the vote, lagged well behind the combined tally of 45.03 percent for the Orange coalition.
Yanukovychâ€™s hopes of assembling a ruling coalition with smaller parties appeared dashed by the almost certain failure of the Socialists -- key allies -- to clear the three percent mark for entering parliament.
With 99.02 percent of all votes counted, the Socialists had only 2.88 percent of the vote. Without the Socialists, the biggest alliance Yanukovych could form would still trail behind its pro-Western rivals.
The communists won 5.37 percent and another small party, the unaligned Lytvyn Bloc, 3.95 percent./APA/