But barely three days before the first round of the presidential elections, in a resolution adopted on 28 October 2004, the European Parliament was deploring the increasingly tense atmosphere of the election campaign and the involvement of the administration and the media on the side of Victor Yanukovych, the outgoing Prime Minister, to the detriment of the leader of the opposition, Viktor Yushchenko.
Taču tik tikko trīs dienas pirms pirmās kārtas, Eiropas Parlaments 2004. gada 28. oktobra rezolūcijā izteica nožēlu par aizvien saspringtāko kampaņas gaisotni, valsts pārvaldes un mediju iesaistīšanos toreizējā premjerministra Viktora Janukoviča labā, par sliktu opozīcijas līderim Viktoram Juščenko.