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Ummm, yeah, so you guys have figured that I was watching the elections in Ukraine very carefully. As usual, I find the reactions predictable. When Yanukovich won the last elections (pro-Russian), noone on here even bothered to post a thread - and he won democratically. And he turned out not as much pro-Russian as the West portrayed him to be, and played tough against Putin.
Oh, and by the way ... it appears as Timoshenko didnt win the election as you guys have claimed (gotta love the anti-Russian media):
http://www.voanews.com/english/2007-10-01-voa15.cfm
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Both sides in Ukraine are claiming the right to form a new government after what is shaping up to be a close parliamentary election.
With more than 90 percent of the votes counted, Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych's pro-Russian Party of Regions has 34 percent of the vote.
Opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko and her pro-reformist bloc has 31 percent and President Viktor Yushchenko's Our Ukraine Party trails with 14 percent.
Mr. Yanukovych says the results give him the right to form a new government. But Tymoshenko says she will ask President Yushchenko to let her put together a new cabinet. They plan to form a coalition that Tymoshenko says will give them more parliamentary seats than Mr. Yanukovych.
International election observers said Sunday's voting was open and competitive and conducted mostly in line with international democratic standards.
But President Yushchenko said Monday he is concerned about reported delays in vote counting in eastern and southern regions of the country, where support for Mr. Yanukovych is strong. He raised the possibility of fraud and ordered an immediate investigation into the problems.
Mr. Yushchenko and Ms. Tymoshenko were political allies in Ukraine's "Orange Revolution" - the mass protests against the results of the 2004 presidential election that declared Mr. Yanukovych the winner. Mr. Yushchenko won the re-vote and named Ms. Tymoshenko prime minister. He later fired her.
President Yushchenko called for Sunday's early elections in April, after dissolving parliament. He accused Mr. Yanukovych of illegally courting members of the president's party to strengthen the prime minister's support in parliament. |
Timoshenko, who first of all is not beautiful, and especially not beautiful after you follow her political career (she's colder than ice), she previously used harsh tactics to win political support. Current political trend in Ukrainian politics is to elect different politicians from different parties every term, because none of them can secure a stable political future in Ukraine. This elections did not give a majority to any of the parties, just like the two elections before - "pro-Russian" (not quite) Party of Regions only fell short by few percents of the vote. This means that the party of Timoshenko will have to form coalition, which will not be hard to do because anti-Russian sentiments are popular (its nice and easy to blaim your problems on your neighbour). Her party is known for strong nationalist approaches to win its support (like, for example, last year in Rada [Ukrainian Parliament] Timoshenko party left the building in protest for not passing one of its pieces of legislation and promised not to return to Rada as the whole Party until the elections were over, and draped their vacated seats with one large Ukrainian flag). Timoshenko is like a bigger hawk than even Yushchenko was. And in no way this will make the political situation in Ukraine better. Because Ukraine, as expected under this leadership, will not be able to find dialogue with Russia, and will demand too much while it really has nothing to offer to Russia from its political approach.
As usual, I predict that this political situation is not going to last, and new elections will be announced within a year or two. More political demonstrations will grip the country. More upheaval. More uncertainty. More Rada parliamentaries will switch parties (which is legal in Ukraine) for bribes and change of hearts. Because Ukraine never been an independent country, they always played to the interests of either the West or Russia, it never really settled down and decided to make a more realistic economic pact with Russia which is far more beneficial that alliance with the West - because most of the Ukrainian trade is with Russia, and Ukraine will not be able to survive today without Russian energy exports.
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Last edited by Magnetonium on Oct-02-2007 at 14:09
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), but I failed to see any obscenity.
