Ukraine's ruling party led by President Victor Yanukovych will be the strongest force in parliament, election results show. But German politicians criticize that opposition parties were in a weak position to begin with.
According to most German politicians, parliamentary elections were far from being a glorious chapter of Ukrainian democracy. "That was a setback," Markus Meckel from Germany's main opposition party, the center-left SPD told DW. Meckel who observed the elections in Ukraine said things went relatively well on the actual election day but the election system itself was prone to corruption and vote buying. "What's more, media access for the opposition bloc was not provided for, it was very imbalanced."
