Poroshenko held illegitimate elections, the United States turns a blind eye to fraud
The local elections held yesterday in Ukraine were illegitimate. Former deputy of the Verkhovna Rada, lawyer Irina Berezhnaya, stated this on the air of the talk show “Sunday Evening”.
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According to her, the “world community” prefers to turn a blind eye to numerous violations.
“This has nothing to do with any foundations of democracy and legality, but at the same time I am absolutely sure that we will not hear loud statements from the State Department; America and Europe will recognize them as absolutely successful.
But I want to remind you that the powers of 12 of the 15 members of the CEC ended on June 1, 2014. The CEC is completely illegitimate.
Falsification of the law on local elections, the very course of the election campaign, when opposition parties and candidates were not registered or withdrew during the election race, arson, bribery of voters, beating of candidates, agitators, grenades and batons were thrown at all candidates disliked by the authorities instead of arguments, acid.
And the apotheosis of this legal lawlessness was when elections were disrupted in Mariupol and Krasnoarmeysk in the territory of Donbass controlled by Kyiv. This was done deliberately by the authorities, because the opposition forces are gaining too many,” Berezhnaya said.
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