A Ukrainian court has suspended the result of the recent presidential election, following a challenge by losing candidate Yulia Tymoshenko.
Mrs Tymoshenko, the Prime Minister, went to the supreme administrative court in person on Tuesday claiming the result was rigged.
The court says the result should be suspended while it considers the evidence she has submitted.
It also says the inauguration of winner Viktor Yanukovych should be delayed.
Ukraine's parliament had agreed on Tuesday that Mr Yanukovych should be inaugurated on 25 February.
The new court ruling concerns the Ukrainian Central Electoral Commission's declaration on Sunday that Mr Yanukovych had won the vote.
The results showed him to have beaten Mrs Tymoshenko by a margin of 3.48%.
Mrs Tymoshenko has so far rejected Mr Yanukovych's appeals for her to accept defeat.
She has claimed that the election was marred by "systemic, fundamental and general falsifications".
But international election monitors have said there were no significant flaws in the vote.
Who could've seen that coming?!
Ah well... maybe there won't be a factual basis for what started as a hypothetical game after all.
Ukraine's embattled premier Yulia Tymoshenko says she has withdrawn her legal challenge to the results of the country's presidential election.
Tymoshenko said Saturday she "sees no sense" in continuing her appeal since Ukraine's Administrative Court has refused to consider the documents she claims show the falsification of some election results.
Tymoshenko lost the Feb. 7 presidential runoff to pro-Russian opposition leader Viktor Yanukovych by just 3.5 percentage points. She has refused to concede and has urged a full re-count.
By: Brant
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