The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) has called the Ukrainian parliamentary election insufficiently transparent and said "democratic progress appeared to have reversed in Ukraine."
The OSCE said the election was characterized by “the lack of a level
playing field, caused primarily by the abuse of administrative
resources, lack of transparency of campaign and party financing, and
lack of balanced media coverage.” Interfax-Ukraine has obtained a report
from the OSCE election monitoring mission.
The mission gave a press conference in Kyiv on Monday. It is a joint
mission of the OSCE/ODHIR, the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, the
Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), the European
Parliament and the NATO Parliamentary Assembly.
The mission has more than 800 members from 42 countries, among them
625 long-term and short-term observers of the OSCE/ODHIR, 100
parliamentarians and employees of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, 40
PACE observers, 19 NATO Parliamentary Assembly observers and 36 European
Parliament observers.
