Oct. 28, 2012 Parliamentary Election
Financial Times: Ukraine’s chance to return to Europe
Ukraine’s parliamentary election this Sunday is a referendum on the presidency of Viktor Yanukovich who won power in February 2010, in a free and fairly contested democratic election. Since then, however, the rules of the parliamentary election system have been changed to favour allies he hopes will continue supporting him.
The mood among Ukrainians has also changed. Many voters who once believed in Mr Yanukovich’s promise of a better economic future after the frustrating stagnation that followed the optimism spawned by the Orange Revolution of 2004, have become pessimistic. Opinion poll surveys record that two-thirds of Ukrainians now believe that the country is moving in the wrong direction.