tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8086033.post1815999962700538269..comments2023-11-05T13:07:03.784+02:00Comments on foreign notes: Opposition candidates in disputed constituencies will continue to fight despite Azarov's offerScott W. Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04047386631227542689noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8086033.post-67894609725370242072012-11-11T17:18:30.515+02:002012-11-11T17:18:30.515+02:00Here's some interesting analysis, as it stands...Here's some interesting analysis, as it stands now:<br /><br />The Party of Regions needs 41 votes in order to gain a majority of 226 in parliament.<br /><br />Also - the commies gained their seats solely under party list voting - not a single seat under the single-mandate election district majority vote.<br /><br /><br />So - <br /><br />Party of Regions - 185 seats<br /><br />Fatherland (United Opposition, Yatseniuk, Tymoshenko, Lutsenko) --- 101<br /><br /><br />Freedom (Svoboda) ----- 37<br /><br /><br />Punch (Klithcko's UDAR party) -- 40<br /><br /><br />Commies - 32<br /><br /><br />43 independents/self-nominated<br /><br /><br />United Center (Viktor Baloha and his brother, plus a cousin) - 3<br /><br /><br />National Party (current speaker Lytvyn plus one more) ----- 2<br /><br /><br />Union --- 1<br /><br />Radical Party (Lyashko) -- 1<br /><br /><br /><br />http://tvi.ua/partii_regioniv_brakue_40_tushok_dlya_bilshostielmernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8086033.post-47000294950393957592012-11-10T16:23:58.419+02:002012-11-10T16:23:58.419+02:00It's not just the elections.
It's also ...It's not just the elections. <br /><br />It's also the "beneficent oilgarchs" who keep their offices by virtue of spreading money around - "building churches," etc.<br /><br />It's not just the elections - it's also the system.<br /><br />Here is yet another concrete example involving Tetyana Zasucha (Татяна Засука), who is a pro-POR candidate who lost at the local level by a significant amount of votes, but then was declared "the winner" by the Central Election Commission.<br /><br />The comments about her at Ukrainian Pravda are not kind, including references to Planet of the Apes.<br /><br />It turns out that she has a company town all to herself and her husband - Kovalivka. The voter turnout was - you guessed it - over 90% in that company town. The welcome sign to the town says it's the "Town of Your Dreams." Uganda and Russia have 90% turnouts.<br /><br />Voter turnout was kept track of very tightly, to make sure people turned out. She and her husband have their company there, and "it was her dream to make a nice town for everyone" - meaning herself.<br /><br />As soon as journalists showed up, there were greeted by --- guards ---- who questioned the journalists' right to film anything - just like in sovok times.<br /><br />First, she and her husband accumulate funds via shady shenanigans in government. Then, they keep their wealth - via government - by spreading a little bit of it around.<br /><br />Here's the video (link is in the middle of the page):<br /><br /><br /><br />http://www.pravda.com.ua/articles/2012/11/9/6977156/<br /><br /><br />It sort of reminds you of the old Tennessee Ernie Ford song, "16 tons" about coal-miners in a company town:<br /><br />You load 16 tons and what do you get,<br />Another day older and deeper in debt<br />St. Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go<br />I owe my soul to the company store.<br /><br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Joo90ZWrUkU<br /><br />In Zookraine - company towns.<br /><br />That's how it workds. One big company town owned by the sovok mafia thugs from the Party of Regions.<br /><br />The thing that's missing in Zookraine:<br /><br />"if you see me coming better step aside<br />a lot of men didn't, a lot of men died<br />one fist of iron, the other of steel,<br />if the left one don't get you, then the right one will"<br /><br />Eliminate the Party of Regions, and eliminate the criminocracy oligarch system in Zookraineelmernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8086033.post-68870422804763307602012-11-09T16:37:14.662+02:002012-11-09T16:37:14.662+02:00You are absolutely right about Knyazhytsky's p...You are absolutely right about Knyazhytsky's program.<br /><br />What is particularly astounding is that the vote margins that were ultimately falsified were not small.<br /><br />The vote tallying at the initial level revealed opposition wins by margins of 4,000 or 3,000 votes.<br /><br />This was in the single-mandate, majority vote districts.<br /><br />Yet, when the tallies were posted at the Central Election Commission, they showed - narrow - victories by the pro-PoR or PoR candidates.<br /><br />The winners that appeared on that TVi show pretty much had the same story - massive vote fraud on the part of the sovok mafia authorities, nullifying thousands, not hundreds, of votes.<br /><br />elmernoreply@blogger.com