The Committee of Voters of Ukraine (CVU) has said that the parliamentary elections in Ukraine saw a record number of cases of the bribery of voters.
“We have never recorded so many cases of bribery in Ukrainian
elections,” CVU Chairman Oleksandr Chernenko said during a discussion on
the results of the elections, which was held at the German Embassy in
Ukraine on Tuesday.
He said last Sunday’s elections had not brought the country closer to
democratic standards, as a number of problems were recorded at all
stages of the electoral process. In particular, Chernenko said that
election commissions were not balanced, the counting of votes in some
districts was being delayed, and a lot of cases of the bribery of voters
were recorded in single-seat constituencies.
Chernenko said that there were no grounds to believe that the
violations that were reported on the polling day could affect the
election results. However, he said, the election results could seriously
be affected by violations that are occurring during the counting of
votes.
