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Yulia Timoshenko Bloc Denied Registration
The just started election campaign to Ukraine’s Supreme Rada has been staggered by the first big scandal. Central Election Committee refused to register one of the race frontrunners – the Bloc of Yulia Timoshenko.
The formal reason that Ukraine’s Central Election Committee used to deny registration to 450 candidates of Bloc of Yulia Timoshenko was the absence of their complete addresses of residence. Of 15 members of the committee, only seven voted for registration, while eight is the minimal number required for it.
Yulia Timoshenko rebuffed in no time, calling the refusal “direct execution of order of Prime Minister Yanukovich and his Regions Party” and attributing this move of authorities to their fear to lose at elections.
In addition to heated rhetoric, a few hundred activists of Bloc of Yulia Timoshenko staged yesterday a picket near headquarters of Central Election Committee. They expect regional supporters to join them today.
President’s Our Ukraine-People’s Self-Defense backed up Timoshenko by releasing a statement that calls that decision of Central Election Committee “a political order and manifestation of political repressions.”
According to Timoshenko’s opponents, the events that were triggered by the denial are more than a dirty PR action. “Those are the planned political technologies that pursue a single aim – to dissolve Central Election Committee, shelve elections and introduce the state of emergency,” said Communist Party Leader Pyotr Simonenko. His interpretation is that inaccuracy in documents was intentional aimed at provoking the negative response of Central Election Committee.
www.kommersant.com
All the Article in Russian as of Aug. 13, 2007
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