President Leonid D. Kuchma Monday proposed holding a new election to end the political crisis threatening to tear the country apart, according to The New York Times . Mr. Kuchma's remarks, which came as Ukraine's Supreme Court heard complaints of electoral fraud involving perhaps millions of ballots in the November 21 presidential election , represented the collapse of what had been the government's united position that Prime Minister Viktor F. Yanukovych won the election. Viktor Yushchenko is a banker seen as pro-Western. His opposition is the incumbent Mr Yanukovych, who is seen as pro-Moscow , a sensitive issue in a former territory of the Soviet Union . The Daily Telegraph quotes Yushchenko as saying to deputies: "Ukraine is on the threshold of a civil conflict. We have two choices: either the answer will be given by the parliament , or the streets will give an answer."
 Monday proposed holding a new election to end the political crisis threatening to tear the country apart, according to . Mr. Kuchma's remarks, which came as Ukraine's Supreme Court heard complaints of involving perhaps millions of ballots in the , represented the collapse of what had been the government's united position that won the election. Viktor Yushchenko is a banker seen as pro-Western. His opposition is the incumbent Mr Yanukovych, who is seen as pro- , a sensitive issue in a former territory of the . quotes Yushchenko as saying to deputies: "Ukraine is on the threshold of a civil conflict. We have two choices: either the answer will be given by the , or the streets will give an answer."
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