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Law: All parties registered in Ukraine will be able to participate in local elections

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Aug. 30, 2010, 1:19 p.m. | Politics — by Interfax-Ukraine
The Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's parliament, has approved Regions Party leader Oleksandr Yefremov's amendments to the law on the election of deputies to the Crimean Supreme Council, local councils and the election of the heads of villages, towns, and cities. A total of 264 lawmakers voted for the adoption of a bill of amendments to the law at an extraordinary session of parliament on Monday.

The law, in particular, extends the opportunity to participate in local elections to all parties, not only those registered more than a year before the elections.

Similar bills submitted by lawmakers Lev Biriuk (the Bloc of Yulia Tymoshenko) and Arseniy Yatsenyuk (Our Ukraine-People's Self-Defense) were earlier put to the vote. Their proposals failed to collect the necessary number of votes to pass – garnering only 145 and 153 respectively.

Read a related Ukrainian-language version of the story here.
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Anonymous Aug. 30, 2010, 2:41 p.m.    

POR can not even figuere out how they want to lie, cheat and steal. Will they change the law again on election day?

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Anonymous Aug. 30, 2010, 5:50 p.m.    

The only vote that counts... Is a vote for Yulia!!!

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Anonymous Aug. 31, 2010, 9:01 a.m.    

Why, is she running to be a Mayor or in a city administration?

I didn't realise her party were nominating her for positions she would surely consider below her.

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Anonymous Aug. 30, 2010, 5:55 p.m.    

allows the Central Election Commission to annul TEC results and establish the election results

Read more: http://www.kyivpost.com/news/politics/detail/80315/#ixzz0y6Lf5IE5

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Anonymous Sept. 1, 2010, 1:19 a.m.    

If PORA supported Kostenko then Kostenko would have had over 3%, UKRAINE would have had a TRUE UKRAINIAN PATRIOT in the &quot;Verchovna Rada&quot;, and yanukovych would have had less seats in the &quot;Verchovna Rada&quot;. Because, the votes that were cast by the UKRAINIANS that voted for Kostenko and PORA were divided by the parties that exceeded 3%. The kremlin has been using the age old tactic of &quot;divide and conquer&quot; and UKRAINIANS KEEP FALLING FOR &quot;THE SAME OLD SONG&quot;.

In the Star Wars movies - there was the Dark Force. Well, all of the dark forces in UKRAINE (and the KGB kremlin) supported yanukovych in one solid block, and convinced many useful idiots to vote for yanukovych. Meanwhile, the UKRAINIAN vote was split between many UKRAINIAN parties that were directly, or indirectly funded by the KGB. The KGB gave many small UKRAINIAN political parties 10,000,000's $$$ to divide the UKRAINIAN vote, knowing that they will not achieve the 3% threshold and that a portion of that UKRAINIAN vote will go to yanukovych.

The UKRAINIANS that voted against all (&quot;proty vcix&quot;) also voted for yanukovych. If you look at a statistical map of the UKRAINIANS that voted against all (&quot;proty vcix&quot;), you will see that in Donetsk and Luhansk the % of UKRAINIANS that voted against all (&quot;proty vcix&quot;)increased by about only 0%-5%, while in Western UKRAINE and Central UKRAINE the % of UKRAINIANS that voted against all (&quot;proty vcix&quot;) increased by about 40%-50%. There was a prolonged campaign that ALL of the politicians were bad and UKRAINIANS need &quot;new faces&quot; in politics. This is where yanukovych pulled the &quot;Tigipko Card&quot; also. I was amazed at the amount of votes that Tigipko received. Did UKRAINIANS forget that Tigipko was yanukovych's right hand man during the 2004 election fraud? Tigipko is just another yanukovych clone, and a vote for Tigipko (Tihipko?).

PS If you are just another KGB propagandist, I am sure that UKRAINIAN students that are members of PORA (and others) will read my comment and understand. I have met hundreds of UKRAINIAN students and I have found ALL of them to be very intelligent, and I was amazed as to the amount of UKRAINIAN students that spoke English.

Read more: http://www.kyivpost.com/news/politics/detail/80532/#ixzz0yDyFqx79

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