On October 26th parliamentary elections took place in Ukraine. According to the results of processing of 94.35 percent of protocols in single-seat majority districts, the party of the Prime Minister Arseny Yatsenyuk “People’s Front” is still the leader, with 22.2 percent of the votes.
Second place is taken by the Petro Poroshenko Coalition; it has 21.81 percent of the votes. “Self-help”, a party of the Mayor of Lviv, Andrey Sadovy, has 11.01 percent; the Opposition Coalition – 9.29 percent. The Radical Party of Oleg Lyashko has 7.44 percent; the party of Yulia Timoshenko, Batkivshchina, got 5.69 percent of votes; and both of them will enter the Rada.
Sergei Slobadchuk, a political consultant, told Vestnik Kavkaza that the current parliamentary-presidential model of the political structure in Ukraine was not constructive, and prevents the country from developing. According to him, it leads to conflicts inside the political leadership.
Commenting on the situation where People’s Front of Yatsenyuk is the leader, Slobadchuk stated that pre-election surveys that predicted the party would take 3rd or 4th place were right. The expert said these were the dirtiest elections since 2004. He stated that results of the elections couldn’t differ from public opinion polls by 10 percent. Slobadchuk sees the problem in the parliamentary-presidential structure of the country’s management.
