Ukraine's Constitutional Court on Saturday overturned some electoral changes passed by the parliament after a disputed presidential runoff on Nov. 21, Ukraine's national news agency Ukrinform reported.

But the Central Election Commission (CEC) said the ruling will not affect the start of the re-run scheduled for Sunday.

"Tomorrow's vote will take place," Yaroslav Davidovich, head of the CEC, told a press conference Saturday.

"We will carry out the court's decision firmly. There is no alternative," he said.

According to the ruling, those who cannot get to polling stations for health reasons will be able to cast ballots at home or hospitals.

The ruling does not affect other newly adopted restrictions on absentee balloting, which the opposition said resulted in vote-rigging in the November runoff.

Davidovich said that to guarantee invalids to take part in the vote at home was not a "problem."

The Constitutional Court's verdict came two days after the court began to hear an appeal filed by 46 lawmakers, demanding that the court rules the revised law "unconstitutional."

Ukraine's parliament passed the amendments to the election law on Dec. 8 after the opposition argued restrictions on voting from home were necessary to minimize the chances of abuses and fraud in the Dec. 26 repeat of the presidential runoff.

Prime Minister and presidential candidate Yanukovych pushed for the scrapping of the restrictions, saying they would deprive millions of their voting rights.

The opposition camp did not seem upset by Saturday's ruling. Opposition presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko's spokeswoman,Irina Gerashchenko, said the court's decision will not hurt the legitimacy of tomorrow's election.

Sunday's re-vote was set after Ukraine's Supreme Court annulled the results of November's vote, canceling the victory of Yanukovych. The court cited massive fraud.

The presidential election has strained relations between Russia and Western countries as they favors Yanukovych and opposition presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko respectively.

Source: Xinhua