Japan will send 10 observers to the elections to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine
Ksenia Naka. Japan is preparing to send 10 of its observers at the extraordinary elections to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on 26 October this year, said Last news in the Department of Central and South-Eastern Europe of the foreign Ministry of Japan.
" The exact number until not defined, but most likely, the group will consist of 10 people, as it was for the presidential election in may. The group will consist of four persons from among ordinary people, plus observers will be sent to the employees of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of Japan, most likely, it will be Authorized Embassy in Kiev ", - said Last news Ikuo Shoji responsible in the Ministry of foreign Affairs of Japan for the formation of a group of observers.
Japanese observers will monitor the election process in Ukraine in the framework of the activities of the Office for democratic institutions and human rights OSCE.
Electoral campaign for the extraordinary elections to the Ukrainian Parliament enters its final stage: the CEC has completed the registration of candidates for deputies. For space in the future Parliament will fight 29 political parties, in which the Pro-presidential " Block Poroshenko ", " popular front ", the leaders of which are the Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk and Parliament speaker Oleksandr Turchynov, and " Radical Party " headed by Oleg Lyashko. To participate in the race wants the Party " Batkivshchyna " Yulia Tymoshenko, the Communist Party of Ukraine, " the Opposition Bloc ", " Strong Ukraine party and the nationalist Svoboda.
The party of regions, which won parliamentary elections 2012, from participation in the election would not. The formal pretext for refusing to elections - war in the Ukraine, the impossibility of 7 million voters Donbass calmly and openly to vote, as well as " criminal policy of the new government ". At the same time Ukrainian political analysts believe that the Party of regions in the current situation is not interested in the elections or in the 1st format. Proportional regionals risk not to cross the five-percent barrier.
Despite the promises of the Kiev authorities to change the qualitative composition of the Verkhovna Rada, to register as a candidate in the Parliament will be the most Authorized of the old political elite, disguised as fresh projects. Unlike the previous elections, the program in practice, all political parties are based on military issues and anti-Russian rhetoric. The overwhelming majority of them declare to the European vector of Ukraine's development and propose ways to resolve the conflict in the East of the country.
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