Vitaly Klitschko WBC Heavyweight Champion
UDAR Party Leader
Oct 15, Kyiv Shulyavskaya
rally
2012©Michael Hammerschlag
Oct 28 Ukraine Parliamentary
Elections: new Great Clean Hope?-
Heavy weight champion
Vitaly
Klitschko's
political party UDAR (PUNCH) underperforms but beats Communists; Could Dr.
Iron Fist
have reduced the Africa-level corruption of the richest resource FSU
country?
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Oct 30: 98% reporting: Party of Regions
wins sweeping
but tainted
victory 30.2%, 25.4% Batkivshchina
(Tymoshenko), 13.8%
Udar, 13.3% Communist, 10.3% Svobody
(Ukr nationalists) in party
list vote; though allied opposition would outmatch POR-Com 49.5%
v 43.5%; but real determinant- individual precincts in the bizarre
50/50 party list/individual split system, POR coalition could get 56%
of final seats- at least 250* of 450 Rada seats
(assuming they "per$uade" 60% of
50 "independent" and smaller party victors to join); leaving
them w
commanding majority; -----according
to the Central Election Commission, Party of Regions will get a total
of 188 seats in the new parliament, Batkivshchyna - 104, independents -
43, UDAR - 40, Communist Party - 32, Svoboda - 36, others - 7 ----
Opera's parallel vote count
indicates official count accurate.
"Many problems but unclear if it's systemic,"
says a US election observer
in Sevastopol. "Incompetence is not a crime" (unless it
is) .... including
massive DOS hacker
attack on opposition and observer websites;
* On Dec 13, the Rada elected a new POR Speaker
Rybak by 250
votes + reelected Azarov PM by
254