Ukraine Vote Will Test President
Posted by | Posted in Business News | Posted on 27-10-2010
KIEV, Ukraine—Ukrainians vote Sunday in local elections that are viewed as a test of President Viktor Yanukovych’s commitment to democracy. Already his critics are crying foul.
Opposition leaders have accused the government of printing fake ballots and pressuring their candidates not to run. Opora, a nonpartisan observer group, said some doctors, teachers and other state employees had been threatened with dismissal if they ran against Mr. Yanukovych’s Party of Regions for mayor and municipal council seats across Ukraine.
Yulia Tymoshenko, the chief opposition leader, said she wouldn’t recognize results in three of the country’s 24 regions because the authorities there …
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