Ruling Party of Regions Wins Ukrainian Election – 99.84% of Votes Counted

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On Saturday, the Ukrainian Central Election Commission said that the ruling Party of Regions won 29.99 percent of the party list vote with 99.84 percent of the ballots counted after the election for seats to the Verkhovna Rada. The Batykivshchina (Fatherland) Party led by jailed former Prime Minister Yuliya Timoshenko came in second with 25.53 percent, and former boxing champion Vitaly Klichko’s Udar (Punch) Party came in third with 13.95 percent. The Communist Party of the Ukraine (KPU) came in fourth with 13.18 percent, and the nationalist Svoboda party gained 10.44 percent. The remaining parties didn’t get past the 5 percent minimum threshold to enter parliament.

The Party of Regions also won the constituency district vote. The election took place on 28 October, with a mixed vote system. Half of the Rada deputies are chosen from party lists on a proportional representation vote, and the other half stand for election in discrete constituencies. The Ukrainian Central Election Commission will announce a final vote tally, with all ballots counted, on Monday at 11.00 local time (13.00 MSK 09.00 UTC 04.00 EST 01.00 PST 17.00 AEST). So far, the Central Election Commission has accepted all the ballots from 188 of 225 regional election commissions. OSCE monitors said the election was not sufficiently transparent and noted an imbalance in the use of administrative resources in the course of the election as well as a disparity in access to media resources among the contending parties. Earlier on Saturday, the EU’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs, Catherine Ashton, criticised the Ukraine for not having a result declared for the election five days after the vote.

3 November 2012

RIA-Novosti

http://en.rian.ru/world/20121103/177177791.html

Editor’s Note:

For those who are interested, the following table shows the proportion of the vote gained by the various major factions in the last three elections (must have won at least 5 percent in one election, bold type indicates a gain in votes over the last election):

	2012	2007	2006	2002
1. Party of Regions	30.0	34.4	32.1	11.8
2. Fatherland	25.5	30.7	22.3	7.3
3. Udar	14.0	—-	—-	—-
4. KPU	13.2	5.4	3.7	20.0
5. Svoboda	10.4	0.8	0.4	—-
6. Our Ukraine	—-	14.2	14.0	23.6
7. Ukrainian Socialist	N/A	2.9	5.7	6.9
8. United Social Democrats	—-	—-	1.0	6.2

The above vote led to the following allocations of seats in the Rada (bold type indicates a gain in seats):

	2012	2007	2006	2002
1. Party of Regions	187	175	186	101
2. Fatherland	103	156	129	22
3. Udar	40	—-	—-	—-
4. KPU	32	27	21	65
5. Svoboda	37	—-	—-	—-
6. Our Ukraine	—-	72	81	112
7. Ukr Socialist	—-	—-	33	23
8. United Soc Dem	—-	—-	—-	24

The Our Ukraine (the Yushchenko gang) bloc has imploded. The two minor Socialist parties have fallen off the map, too. Fatherland (Timoshenko’s bunch) appears to have peaked, and is on the downturn. The Party of Regions is holding its own, and the KPU is coming back from a disastrous collapse in 2006. What’s worrisome is the rise of Svoboda and Udar, but there were 72 Yushchenko deputies in 2007 and 77 Svoboda/Udar deputies in 2012. It looks like the Yushchenko voters went for the two extreme right parties, actually diluting their influence. It shows you the level of intelligence amongst the rightwing… namely, not much. In short, not much change.

If one counts the Regions/KPU deputies together, one comes up with the following total of pro-Russian deputies:

	Rada deputies
2012	219
2007	202
2006	207
2002	166

That is, these two pro-Russian parties have 30 percent more seats than in 2002… that doesn’t bode well for the Galician nationalists, which is why they probably bolted from Yushchenko’s faction and cast their lot with the Far Right Svoboda. This probably means that a Ukrainian rapprochement with Russia is on the way in the middle-future (five to ten years down the road). America’s great attempt to weaken Great Russia by wresting away the Ukraine has probably failed. Sic semper tyrannis…

BMD 

 

Party of Regions Leads the Ukrainian Parliamentary Election After 10% of Ballots Counted

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On Monday, the Ukrainian Central Election Committee said that the ruling Party of Regions, headed by Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich, leads the parliamentary elections after it counted 10 percent of the ballots. Yanukovich’s party gained 39.97 percent of the vote, followed by jailed ex-premier Yuliya Timoshenko’s Batkivshchyna party with 19.56 percent. The Ukrainian Communist Party came in third with 15.79 percent. Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reform (UDAR), led by world-famous boxer Vitaly Klitschko had 11.59 percent of the vote, whilst 6.18 percent of the voters cast their ballots in favour of the nationalist Svoboda Party.

The rest of the political parties participating in the electnationalistion didn’t pass the five percent threshold necessary to gain seats in the country’s legislative body, the Verkhovna Rada. Over 5,000 candidates contested 450 seats in the Rada, with half of the deputies elected by party-list voting, whilst the other half stood in single-mandate constituencies. Polls closed at 20.00 EET (21.00 MSK 18.00 UTC 13.00 EDT 10.00 PDT 04.00 29 October AET) on Sunday. According to the Central Election Committee, voter turnout stood at nearly 58 percent.

29 October 2012

RIA-Novosti

http://en.ria.ru/politics/20121029/177005157.html

KPU General Secretary Simonenko Receives Order of Friendship From President Putin

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This was sent to me as a cut n’ paste in an e-mail, so, I have no URL to post. It comes from a reliable source:

On 28 September, Pyotr Simonenko, head of the Communist Party of the Ukraine (KPU), was in Moscow to meet with Gennady Zyuganov, leader of the KPRF, and to receive the Order of Friendship of the Russian Federation from the RF Gosduma. Simonenko received the award for his work in the KPU to promote friendship and brotherhood between Russia and the Ukraine. Later, he met with Zyuganov at KPRF headquarters in Moscow. The two Communist leaders discussed various topics pertaining to the situations of the Parties in both nations.

Editor’s Note:

Orthodox believers should make a poklon before Pyotr Nikolayevich. The KPU stood tall for the real canonical Church, even in the dark days of the 1990s and during the Yushchenkoshchina. When impious Uniate and schismatic mobs attacked the real churches and clergy, egged on and paid by the Americans (as evidenced by the actions of such godless smarmy filth as John Herbst), the KPU put themselves between the rabid insurrectionists and their targets. The Komsomoltsy defended the churches, they showed respect to and protected the real bishops and priests, and they “busted heads and kicked ass” to beat back the depraved pro-American scummer cabal, saving God’s Church in the Ukraine. Because of their steadfastness and bravery, there’s a real canonical Church in the Ukraine today.

Orthodox in the American diaspora should reflect on the fact that the konvertsy cheer on the theomachistic greed, pathetic consumerism, and reckless hegemonism of the American master class; they don’t support the god-pleasing actions of the KPU. By the way, Willard Romney and his squalid neocon cabal supports the schismatics and Uniates more than Barack Obama does… that should give you a hint as to whom to vote for on 6 November. The President isn’t perfect, and there are Russophobes and Orthophobes amongst his advisers. However, Willy’s far worse… he’s virtually declared war on the Orthosphere. You KNOW what to do about that.

Are the konvertsy really one with us? That’s for you to decide…

BMD

Lugansk Lawmakers OK Language Bill

This is a typical Galician nutter… beloved of Langley and lickspittle of the West… do note how many supporters he’s garnered. However, your tax dollars subsidise such traitorous filth.

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The legislative council of Lugansk in the eastern Ukraine approved a bill on languages similar to the one passed by the Verkhovna Rada last week. Addressing lawmakers, Lugansk Mayor Sergei Kravchenko said the new law restored legitimacy in the Ukraine after two decades of violations that deprived people in a number of provinces of the right to speak or receive education in their native language. The law will enable school graduates in the Donbass region, where the majority of children attend Russian schools, to obtain high-quality post-secondary education in Russian. Meanwhile, nationalists in the Western Ukraine continue to fuel hysteria over the new law.

10 July 2012

Voice of Russia World Service

http://english.ruvr.ru/2012_07_10/Luhansk-lawmakers-OK-language-bill/