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VOTER TURNOUT ALMOST 70 PERCENT
THE LEFT GAINED 173 FROM 450 SEATS IN PARLIAMENT
FOUR PERCENT BARRIER IS ATTAINED BY 8 PARTIES, THREE OF WHICH ARE OF LEFT WING
RESULTS OF PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS IN MAJORITARIAN ELECTORIAL AREAS
THREE MPs FROM REFORMS AND ORDER PARTY WILL NOT JOIN FACTIONS IN NEW PARLIAMENT
VOTER TURNOUT ALMOST 70 PERCENT
KYIV. On March 29, parliamentary and local elections took place, where
69.64 percent of all registered voters participated, said head of the Central Election Commission Mykhailo Ryabetsin in the early hours on March 30.
According to the official, the largest voter turnout was observed in the
Western oblasts of Ukraine, with Ternopil Oblast being a clear leader
(83.66%). In Khmelnytsky Oblast, 79.04% of voters took part in the elections, 78.99% - Rivne Oblast, 78.27% - Volyn Oblast, 77.88% - Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, 77.65% - Zhytomyr Oblast. In Crimea,
voter turnout stood at 63.31%. The lowest voter turnout was in Sevastopol
with 50.28% and Kyiv with 58.49%.
Among the voting districts, the largest turnouts were in voting districts
No.165 (Buchach) and No.166 (Terebovlya) in the Ternopil Oblast, with
89.68% and 89.30%, respectively. The smallest number of voters were
registered in the voting districts No. 225 and 224 in Sevastopol, 49.62% and
50.94%, respectively.
THE LEFT GAINED 173 FROM 450 SEATS IN PARLIAMENT
KYIV. According to preliminary calculations based on the announcement by
Central Electoral Commission results, the representatives of the left forces
already gained 173 places in the new parliament, and will influence 38,4%
of all the votes (Communist party -- 123 seats, Socialist
party-Peasant's party -- 34 seats, Progressive Socialist party -- 16
seats). Independent candidates won 114 seats; part of them is
supported by various political parties.
According to preliminary calculations, seats in the Ukrainian Parliament went to:
Ruch -- 46 seats (10,22%), National Democratic Party -- 28 seats
(6,22%), "Hromada" -- 23 seats (5,11%), Green Peace Party -- 19
seats (4,22%), Social Democratic Party (united) -- 17 seats (3,78%),
Agrarian Party -- 8 seats (1,77%), Party Reforms and Order -- 3
seats, Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists -- 3 seats,
Christian-Democratic Party -- 3, Ukrainian Republican Party -- 2, Party of
Regional Revival -- 2, "Union" -- 2 seats. One voice in the
parliament were won by the Democratic, Liberal, Social-National, Ukrainian
Christian-Democratic Parties, Christian People's Union, Social-Liberal
organization.
The calculations are based on an assumption that candidates, elected in
majoritarian areas, would cancel themselves from party lists if they were on them.
FOUR PERCENT BARRIER IS ATTAINED BY 8 PARTIES, THREE OF WHICH ARE OF LEFT WING
KYIV. According to the final results of Central Electoral Commission concerning party lists voting, the four percent barrier was attained by 8 parties and blocks: Communist party (24,68% of voices), Ruch (9,4%), block of Socialist and Peasants' parties (8,54%), Green Peace party (5,46%),National-democratic party (4,99%), "Hromada" (4,68%), Progressive Socialist party (4,04%), and Social Democratic party of Ukraine (united) (4,02%) .
As a result of party lists elections, the Communist party gained 84 seats,
Ruch -- 32, block of Socialist and Peasants' parties -- 29, Green Peace
party -- 19, National democratic Party -- 17, "Hromada" -- 16, Progressive
Socialist party -- 14, Social-Democratic party (united) -- 14 seats.
RESULTS OF PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS IN MAJORITARIAN ELECTORIAL AREAS
KYIV. According to Central Electoral Commission and Regional Electoral
Commissions, the following candidates won parliamentary elections in the majoritarian areas:
1 -- Leshan Yevgen (Communist Party of Ukraine, CPU)
2 -- Myrymskiy Lev ("Union"
3 -- Ivanov Sergiy (independent)
4 -- Rahanskiy Anatoliy (independent)
5 -- Myronenko Victor (CPU)
6 -- Gorbatov Valeriy (independent)
7 -- Franchuk Ihor (National Democratic Party, NDP)
8 -- Chubarov Refat (independent)
9 -- Horoshkovskiy Valeriy (NDP)
10 -- Franchuk Anatoliy (Agrarian Party of Ukraine, APU)
11 -- Kvyatkovskiy Ihor (NDP)
12 -- Poroshenko Petro (independent)
13 -- Yuchnovskiy Oleg (independent)
14 -- Shpak Olexander (independent)
15 -- Pasieka Myckola (CPU)
16 -- Smirnov Yevgen (independent)
17 -- Matviyenko Anatoliy (NDP)
18 -- Stoyan Olexander (Allukrainian Party of Workers, APW)
19 -- Dibrova Valeriy (Ukrainian Republican Party, URP)
20 -- Vashchuk Cateryna (APU)
21 -- Martynenko (independent)
22 -- Svyryda Olexander (Democratic Party of Ukraine, DPU)
24 -- Chukmasov Sergiy (independent)
23 -- Shevchuk Sergiy (NDP)
25 -- Riabchenko Olexander (independent)
26 -- Pinchuk Victor (independent)
27 -- Balashov Gennadiy (Social Liberal Union, SLON)
28 -- Agafonov Myckola (APU)
29 -- Martynovskiy Valeriy (independent)
30 -- Safronov Stanislav ("Gromada")
31 -- Shtepa Valeriy (CPU)
32 -- Gurov Vadym (independent)
33 -- Pustovoitov Valeriy (CPU)
34 -- Chernychko (CPU)
35 -- Zhyr Olexander (independent)
36 -- Kyrylenko Ivan (independent)
37 -- Trofymenko Larysa ("Gromada")
38 -- Bilyk Anatoliy ("Gromada")
39 -- Aliohyn Volodymyr (Gromada)
40 -- Lazarenko Pavlo (Gromada)
41 -- Shcherban' Volodymyr (Liberal Party of Ukraine, LPU)
42 -- Yushko Ihor (Party of Regional Revivement of Ukraine, PRRU)
43 -- Zviagil'skiy Yuhym (independent)
44 -- Pysarenko Anatoliy (CPU)
45 -- Rybak Volodymyr (PRRU)
46 -- Rzhavskiy Olexander (independent)
47 -- Yankovskiy Myckola (independent)
48 -- Chernenko Vitaliy (independent)
49 -- Kocherga Victor (CPU)
50 -- Yakovenko Olexander (CPU)
51 -- Konstantynov Yevgen (independent)
52 -- Shehovtsov Olexiy (independent)
53 -- Moiseyenko Volodymyr (CPU)
54 -- Vlasov Volodymyr (CPU)
55 -- Matviyenkov Sergiy (independent)
56 -- Lytiuk Anatoliy (independent)
57 -- Kravchenko Myckola (CPU)
58 -- Leshchinskiy Olexander (independent)
59 -- Abramov Fedir (CPU)
60 -- Mychko Myckola (independent)
61 -- Vasyliev Gennadiy (independent)
62 -- Konovaliuk Valeriy (independent)
63 -- Bogatyrenko Anatoliy (independent)
64 -- Yehanurov Yuriy (NDP)
65 -- Kovalko Mychaylo (NDP)
66 -- Yatsenko Volodymyr (CPU)
67 -- Spizhenko Yuriy (independent)
68 -- Zhuravskiy Vitaliy (Christian Democratic Party of Ukraine, CDPU)
69 -- Rozvadovskiy (independent)
70 -- Shufrych Nestor (Social Democratic Party of Ukraine (united), SDPUu)
71 -- Surkis Grygoriy (SDPUu)
72 -- Kovach Myckola (independent)
73 -- Medvedchuk Victor (SDPUu)
74 -- Zherdytskiy Victor (independent)
75 -- Baburin Olexiy (CPU)
76 -- Baulin Pavlo (independent, supported by CPU)
77 -- Ponedilko Victor (CPU)
78 -- Kuznetsov Olexander (independent)
79 -- Arabadjy Volodymyr (APU)
80 -- Kucherenko (independent)
81 -- Mangul Anatoliy (independent)
82 -- Moroz Anatoliy (CPU)
83 -- Yermak Anatoliy (independent)
84 -- Kostytskiy Vasyl' (Christian People's Union, CPU)
85 -- Nasalyk Ihor (independent,supported by Party of Labour)
86 -- Tkachuk Vasyl' (independent)
87 -- Lytvak Oleg (independent)
88 -- Koshchynets Vasyl' (Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists, CUN)
89 -- Stetsko Yaroslava (CUN)
90 -- Tkalenko Ivan (independent)
91 -- Tabachnyk Dmytro (independent, supported by coalition People,
Economics, Order, PEO)
92 -- Moroz Olexander (Socialistic Party of Ukraine, SPU)
93 -- Zasuha Tetiana (APU)
94 -- Zhovtyak Yevgen (independent)
95 -- Kyrymov Ivan (independent)
96 -- Ishchenko Olexiy (independent, supported by NDP)
97 -- Bakay Ihor (independent, supported by NDP)
98 -- Antonyeva Hanna (independent)
99 -- Tymoshenko Yulia (Gromada)
100 -- Suprun Ludmyla (independent)
101 -- Kuharchuk Oleg (independent)
102 -- Yedin Olexander (independent)
103 -- Borzhyh Olexander (independent)
104 -- Maramzyn Fedir (CPU)
105 -- Gmyria Sergiy (CPU)
106 -- Kolomoytsev Valeriy (independent)
107 -- Petrenko Dmytro (CPU)
108 -- Davydov Volodymyr (independent)
109 -- Yes'kov Valentyn (CPU)
110 -- Tsybenko Petro (CPU)
111 -- Iyoffe Yuliy (independent)
112 -- Cherenkov Olexander (CPU)
113 -- Donchenko Yuriy (CPU)
114 -- Berezhniy Victor (CPU)
115 -- Shmidt Roman (Ruch)
116 -- Kosiv Mychaylo (Ruch)
117 -- Pynzennyk Victor (Party Reforms and Order, PRO)
118 -- Kryvoruchko Yuriy (independent)
119 -- Tyagnybock Oleg (Social-National Party of Ukraine, SNPU)
120 -- Bilas Ivan (independent, supported by National Front)
121 -- Lavrynovych Olexander (Ruch)
122 -- Romovska Zoryslava (PRO)
123 -- Gudyma Olexander (Ruch)
124 -- Pylypchuk Ihor (independent, supported by National Front)
125 -- Furdychko Orest (APU)
126 -- Ostash Ihor (Ukrainian Christian Democratic Party, UCDP)
127 -- Gorbachov Victor (independent)
128 -- Kinah Anatoliy (NDP)
129 -- Matveyev Volodymyr (CPU)
130 -- Garkusha Olexiy (APU)
131 -- Acopyan Valeriy (independent)
132 -- Nastenko Olexander (independent, supported by PRO)
133 -- Shyshkin Victor (independent)
134 -- Karmazin Yuriy (independent)
135 -- Kivalov Serhij (independent)
136 -- Gurvits Eduard (independent)
137 -- Druzyuk Svitlana (CPU)
138 -- Zhovtis Olexander (independent)
139 -- Kruk Yuriy (independent)
140 -- Tsushko Vasyl' (Peasants' Party of Ukraine, PPU)
141 -- Mazurenko Volodymyr (independent)
142 -- Sokerchak Viacheslav (CPU)
143 -- Grynyvetskiy Sergiy (independent)
144 -- Gusak Leonid (independent, supported by NDP)
145 -- Kulyk Olexander (independent)
146 -- Omelchenko Grygoriy (independent, supported by Christian-People
Union, CPU)
147 -- Masenko Olexander (CPU)
148 -- Klochko Maria (CPU)
149 -- Zhevago Kostyantyn (independent)
150 -- Kozak Yaroslav (independent)
151 -- Kyrychenko Myckola (CPU)
152 -- Movchan Pavlo (Ruch)
153 -- Chernyak Volodymyr (Ruch)
154 -- Tsehmistrenko Vitaliy (independent)
155 -- Poliuhovych Ivan (independent)
156 -- Danylchuk Olexander (independent)
157 -- Tropin Volodymyr (CPU)
158 -- Cherep Valeriy (independent)
159 -- Derkach Andriy ("Trudova Ukraina")
160 -- Vitrenko Natalia (Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine, PSPU)
161 -- Marchenko Volodymyr (PSPU)
162 -- Dashutin Grygoriy (independent)
163 -- Dzhodzhyk Yaroslav (independent)
164 -- Ratushniy Mychaylo (CUN)
165 -- Ishchenko Oleg (Ruch)
166 -- Taniuk Les' (Ruch)
167 -- Drach Ivan (Ruch)
168 -- Semynozhenko Volodymyr (independent)
169 -- Bogoslovska Inna (independent)
170 -- Potimkov Sergiy (independent)
171 -- Salygin Vasyl' (independent)
172 -- Alexeyev Volodymyr (independent)
173 -- Shmarov Valeriy (independent)
174 -- Tishchenko Olexander (CPU)
175 -- Bandurka Olexander (independent)
176 -- Gavrysh Stepan (independent)
177 -- Lisogorskiy Olexiy (CPU)
178 -- Goshovska Valentyna (APU)
179 -- Diyak Ivan (independent)
180 -- Chagovets Vasyl' (independent)
181 -- Kononenko Yuriy (independent)
182 -- Yeliashkevych Olexander (Gromada)
183 -- Kyrychenko Sergiy (Christian Democratic Party of Ukraine, CDPU)
184 -- Pashkovskiy Leonid (independent)
185 -- Nickolayenko Stanislav (SPU)
186 -- Snigach Andriy (independent)
187 -- Fialkovskiy Volodymyr (independent)
188 -- Pavlovskiy Mychaylo (URP)
189 -- Bortnyk Voldymyr (independent, supported by PEO)
190 -- Chyzh Ivan (SPU)
191 -- Chical Adam (independent)
192 -- Tanasov Sergiy (CPU)
193 -- Buryak Sergiy (independent)
194 -- Nechyporuk Volodymyr (independent)
195 -- Tkachenko Olexander (PPU)
196 -- Yuhymets' Olga (CPU)
197 -- Podobedov Sergiy (independent)
198 -- Onufriychuk Mychaylo, (independent)
199 -- Royenko Victor (CPU)
200 -- Syrota Mychaylo (NDP)
201 -- Marchenko Olexiy (independent)
202 -- Korol' Victor (independent)
203 -- Filipchuk Georgiy (Ruch)
204 -- Popescu Ivan (independent)
205 -- Korchynskiy Anatoliy (independent)
206 -- Ananko Yevgen (independent)
207 -- Ustenko Petro (independent)
208 -- Rud'kovskiy (independent)
209 -- Puhkal Olexander (independent)
210 -- Shpyg Fedir (independent)
211 -- Petrov Oleg (NDP)
212 -- Bondarenko Volodymyr (independent)
213 -- Mokrousov Anatoliy (independent)
214 -- Teryohin Sergiy (PRO)
215 -- Brodskiy Myhaylo (independent)
216 -- Chubatenko Olexander (independent)
217 -- Zadorozhniy Olexander (independent, supported by PEO)
218 -- Babych Valeriy (independent)
219 -- Chernovetskiy Leonid (independent)
220 -- Slobodian Olexander (Ruch)
221 -- Orobets' Yuriy (independent)
222 -- Golovatiy Sergiy (independent)
223 -- Kosakivskiy Leonid (independent)
224 -- Kondratevskiy Sergiy ("Union")
225 -- Zachosov Vadym (CPU)
CENTRAL ELECTORAL COMMISSION COMMITTED INADMISSIBLE DELAY IN CALCULATING VOTES -- HEAD OF PRESIDENT ADMINISTRATION
KYIV. Delay in calculating electoral votes is inadmissible
and will be given a serious analysis. If delays are caused by executive
powers, serious conclusions will be taken, according to what the head of President Administration Yevgen Kushnarov stated at a briefing in the Administration on April 1.
He stressed that in the parliamentary victory of the Communists there is
nothing unpredictable -- voters voted for representatives of left forces,
protesting against low living conditions. He thinks that the advantage of left forces is a serious warning to dispersed camp of democrats, who reached
the new system elections unprepared. However, this advantage of
the left forces is not so large as to preventing initiating constitutional changes in the state.
The Head of Administration stressed that President Leonid Kuchma does not
want to deteriorate the relationship with the newly-elected Parliament. In his opinion, the struggle between executive and legislative branches of power in Ukraine depended greatly on a personal position of Speaker of Supreme Council Olexander Moroz. Yevgen Kushnarov claimed that the newly-elected Parliament does not imply automatic changes in the government.
Yevgen Kushnarov stressed that the results of the elections vigorously
proved that the all-national party "Hromada" does not exist. In his words,
there exists only a regional Dnipropetrovsk clan, which is only able to
delegate to the parliament in other regions only two of its candidates:
Yulia Tymoshenko in Kirovograd region and Olexander Yelyashkevich in
Kherson region. Besides, Kushnarov paid attention to a fact that "Hromada"
overcame 4-percent barrier in three regions only -- Dnipropetrovsk,
Kirovograd, and Kherson regions.
LEADERS OF NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY ACCUSED PARTY "HROMADA" OF BREAKING ELECTORAL NORMS, AND LOCAL AUTHORITIES OF THEIR NON SUPPORT OF THE NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY
KYIV. Representatives of the National Democratic, Agrarian, Socialist, Peasants' Parties and Ruch left from Dnipropetrovsk region to Kyiv with information about severe breaking of procedure in the region by party "Hromada" on March 29. This statement was declared by the head of electoral campaign of National Democratic Party Olexander Karpov at a press conference on April 1.
The leader of the National Democratic Party (NDP) Anatoliy Matviyenko at the
same conference stated that the new parliament - by its constituents - will
resemble the previous one: communist and market economy forces will be
divided equally, and another 20% of the deputies will not make a political
choice, being "nondescript". In his opinion, the biggest sensation of the
elections is a possible coalition "of communists with state level
thieves, who, for some reasons, like the communist idea."
THREE MPs FROM REFORMS AND ORDER PARTY WILL NOT JOIN FACTIONS IN NEW
PARLIAMENT
KYIV. The three representatives of the Reforms and Order party who were
elected MPs last Sunday are not going to join any of party factions in the
new Parliament, said Serhiy Teryokhin, MP and member of the Reforms and
Order party, in an interview with Infobank. Mr. Teryokhin added that in
the new Parliament they hope to join a lawmakers' group similar to the
Reforms group in the 1994-1997 Parliament.
According to the regulations, continued Mr, Teryokhin, only four parties
or blocs (Rukh, Communists, People's Democratic party and the bloc of the
Socialist and Peasants' parties) can form their factions in the Parliament
(there must at least 25 members in a group or faction). Other parties
will have to seek other ways of structuring in the Supreme Council.
Therefore other lawmakers' groups will be formed according to how group
members-to-be view the conceptual problems of politics and economics, not
according to their membership in a party.
Serhiy Teryokhin also said that in such group he would like to see first
of all Rukh members. He is convinced that MPs from the Social-Democratic
party (united) list could also join this group because this party's
election list was formed with the election rather than party in mind.
With regard to the Green party, most probably they will try to form their
own faction, said Mr. Teryokhin. According to him, those who have become
MPs thanks to this party's election list, which includes many heads of
those industrial giants that pollute the environment, are in a state of
euphoria and it looks like they are going to stick to the idea which has
brought them to the Parliament.
Serhiy Teryokhin puts the Reforms and Order's failure in the Parliamentary
elections down to their lack of experience in the political theatricality
inherent in other parties. "We have failed to explain to our society in a
popular way those rather complex economical ideas that we advocate", said
Mr. Teryokhin.
According to him, the rhetoric employed by the People's Rukh when they
were convincing the supporters of smaller or less popular democratic
parties to vote for Rukh just because "those parties won't get through
anyway", has done a lot of harm not only to the Reforms and Order party
but to all democratic forces in general. Serhiy Teryokhin believes that
this rhetoric, which influenced voter's decision, especially in Halychyna,
may have prevented the Reforms and Order from reaching a 4 percent
threshold (3.13% of voters have voted for this party) and thus deprived
the new Supreme Council of 14 democratically oriented lawmakers.
RUKH LEADER SAYS LESS INFLUENTIAL DEMOCRATIC PARTIES' PARTICIPATION IN
ELECTION IS BETRAYAL OF UKRAINE
KYIV. "The people who have betrayed Ukraine are now seeking ways of
getting out of the situation and blame others for their failure", said
Vyacheslav Chornovil, Rukh's leader, in an interview with Infobank while
answering the Reform and Order's (ROP) charges that pre-election methods
employed by Rukh have resulted in a loss of at least 14 candidates for
democratic forces.
"If the Reforms and Order party and National Front had followed our calls
and withdrawn their election lists we [the People's Rukh] could have now
as many MPs as the communists do", said Vyacheslav Chornovil. "One had to
choose the most reliable force and it was very easy to foresee it and we
foresaw it and warned people. One mustn't make up a party after the law
[on election] is adopted. One cannot win elections relying only on a nice
poster with Pynzenyk's face on it. Elections can be won if one has
far-flung structures all over Ukraine."
"Teryokhin's party, which does not exist in fact, was created on paper for
the elections. It is they who got our [Rukh's] potential votes and not
vice versa. They did not have any hope to pass a 4 percent threshold
because they do not exist. They have gathered 500,000 votes whereas the
minimal necessary figure is 1,040,000." (In fact, according to the central
election committee, 3.13% of voters voted for the Reforms and Order party,
which is over three quarters of the minimal figure necessary for passing
the threshold - Infobank).
"Even if they had happened to get through by some miracle owing to
Pynzenyk's nice physiognomy which is hung on every pillar in every
village, what would they do in the Parliament?" (MP group Reforms, which
was ROP's basis, and Serhiy Teryokhin, one of its leaders, were authors or
co-authors of most of the economical laws passed by the 1994-1997 Supreme
Council - Infobank.) "I think that along with the National Front they must
kneel down and repent before the people of Ukraine for those votes they
have taken from us and given to communists."
While answering Chornovil's charges Serhiy Teryokhin, one the leaders of
the Reforms and Order party, said in an interview with Infobank:
"If the People's Rukh did not have such 'small fuhrer' Chornovil, who is
one of those to blame for the loss of a lot of voters for his party, we
would have been in a united democratic Rukh long ago". Serhiy Teryokhin
believes that it is Oleksandr Lavrynovych who could promote the alliance
of all democratic forces as head of the People's Rukh. In Mr. Teryokhin's
opinion, Vyacheslav Chornovil is an astonishing person: being a victim of
the anti-democratic totalitarian regime, he builds his political practise
on the basis of bolshevism.
"No matter how much Mr. Chornovil may want something different, the ROP
does have a far-flung structure in every oblast of Ukraine, said Serhiy
Teryokhin. Of course, our party is young. It is much younger than the
People's Rukh but it is our advantage rather than a drawback."
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