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By the dawn of the election day, November 21, 2004, when the scale of alleged fraud started to appear, the Yushchenko team made their public calls for action, and, beginning on November 22, 2004, massive protests began in cities across Ukraine: the major one in Kiev's Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence Square) attracted an estimated 500, 000 participants[citation needed], who on November 23, 2004, peacefully marched in front of the headquarters of the Verkhovna Rada, the Ukrainian parliament, many wearing orange or carrying orange flags, the color of Yushchenko's campaign coalition. The local authorities in Kiev, Lviv, and several other cities passed, with a wide popular support of their constituency, a largely symbolic refusal to accept the legitimacy of the official election returns and Yushchenko took a symbolic presidential oath. This "oath", while not conforming the country's legal procedures and taken in half-empty parliament chambers, lacking the quorum with only his supporting factions present, was largely a symbolic gesture meant to demonstrate the resolve of Yushchenko team not to accept the compromised election results. Some observers argued that this symbolic presidential oath might have been necessary, should events have taken a more confrontational route. In such a scenario, this "presidential oath" Yushchenko took could be used to give more clout of legitimacy to the claim that he, rather than his rival who tried to gain the presidency through alleged fraud, is a true commander-in-chief authorized to give orders to the military and security agencies. However, Yushchenko opponents seized to denounce him for taking an illegitimate oath and some moderate opposition supporters felt ambivalent towards this act. However, many of the more radical supporters demanded from Yushchenko to take more decisive measures to break the political deadlock. Blue-clad miners rally in support of Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych in Kiev Enlarge Blue-clad miners rally in supp
