29 September 2010, 13:32
Volodymyr Lytvyn, Chairman of The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, believes that the opposition is willing to disrupt the local elections, rather than improve their organization.
On Wednesday, V.Lytvyn commented upon the address of the leaders of nine opposition parties of Ukraine to the international organizations concerning the imminence of non-democratic elections organization in Ukraine. V.Lytvyn stated that he studied the bill submitted by the deputies in opposition, which "actually presents the contents of the address in more or less acceptable legal terms."
"It presupposes disruption of the elections, rather than improvement of their organization," the Head of the Parliament admitted.
According to V.Lytvyn, the reasons for immediate reorganization of the Central Election Commission are not clear. He characterized the attempts ‘to divide the Central Election Commission into the friends and foes´ as ‘absurd.´
The Head of the Parliament is also surprised by the suggestion of changing the composition of the territorial election commissions, since the members of the Party of Regions, ‘the biggest party and faction,´ have the largest representation in these commissions, while the members of the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc are in close-run representation.
V.Lytvyn stated that "the law on the political parties was actually neglected", when the law on the local elections was amended.
He claimed that the places in the electoral lists of the political parties are being sold to guarantee "not the result, but the percentage as a starting point for coming political campaigns." "However, it will result in the lack of political structuring and responsibility," V.Lytvyn admitted.