Elections to the Rada: This is a united country, son!
Alexey Blyuminov, political commentator, Kyiv-Lugansk
52.42 percent. This is exactly the final turnout across the country recorded by the Ukrainian Central Election Commission. Taking into account the 3-5 percent of exaggerations and falsifications that are standard for any elections in Ukraine due to voting at special polling stations, it can be stated that the final turnout throughout the country was actually even less than the percentage officially declared by the Central Election Commission. Most likely, it made up less than half of those included in the voter lists.
This assessment is confirmed by a number of independent experts. “According to our research, 60-70% of people did not want to vote, and they did not come to vote. These are the people who realized that they are being deceived, are constantly lying, and it is useless to go to the polls. It’s their votes that the “leaders” stole, took credit for, and now they’re walking around beating their chests and shouting that they won the elections,” says Kiev human rights activist Eduard Bagirov.
For comparison, in the same parliamentary elections in 2012, the turnout was 57.98 percent. True, the country was different then. With Donbass and Crimea. After 5 million people were removed from the lists, both turnout and the percentage of winners began to be calculated based on another, much smaller total number of voters. Accordingly, the percentages seem to be the same, but in absolute numbers they decrease significantly.
Under the “bloody” Yanukovych, out of almost 36 million people on the lists, 23 million went to the polls. Under the European democrats, unprecedented national unity showed results first in 17 (spring) and then 15 million (in autumn). That is, expressed in numbers, unity consists in the loss of interest in the Ukrainian elections among 8 million people.
Again, as an example. In the spring, when Poroshenko was elected, the Dnipropetrovsk region showed a turnout of 55 percent. Today, that turnout has dropped to 47.86 percent. The Odessa region showed 46 percent in the spring, and now has set an anti-record for turnout, giving only 39 percent. And the same picture is throughout the southeast - Kharkov, Zaporozhye, Kherson, Nikolaev. Here voters voted en masse with their feet.
Interestingly, a turnout of just over 40 percent was also observed in the far west – in Transcarpathia. Local Hungarians did not come to the elections there. But in four out of six districts, representatives of the Balogh family clan won, giving observers a reason to talk about the formation of another local feudal principality, ready to set sail from the Ukrainian coast on an autonomous voyage at the slightest sign of a political-economic storm in Kyiv.
But the brightest and most impressive celebration of democracy was observed in the “temporarily liberated territories” of Donbass. Holding elections under “lightweight” legislation, when they are considered valid even if only one polling station was opened in the district, yielded real miracles. For example, in constituency No. 45 in the Donetsk region, former regional leader Efim Zvyagilsky won with a score of 72 percent. Such an impressive percentage of support hides only one and a half thousand votes, with a total turnout in the district of less than 73 thousand people. Of the 2 polling stations in the district, four were open on Election Day.
If there are people who rejoice at this circumstance and talk in their blogs about what wonderful patriotic candidates are entering the Rada from the slipway of such elections, this only testifies to the internal disintegration of the country, whose residents carry identical passports in their pockets, but have long since lost their internal connection with their fellow citizens.
In fact, they already live with them in different countries. Because if we consider the “republic” in its primary Latin understanding, as a common civic endeavor, we will have to admit that the circle of fellow citizens is becoming increasingly narrower with each new electoral cycle.
Fewer and fewer people are going to vote, more and more localizing themselves in the west of the country, and the number of regions with a turnout of more than 50 percent is also decreasing with each new election. The trend, however.
It is not surprising that the deputies emerging as a result of such elections do not even think about the need to somehow take into account the opinions and interests of that part of the country that ignores such elections, not considering them as people with whom it is necessary to somehow agree on something.
There is no need to wait for this approach to change. So, as long as such a regime remains in Kyiv, the movement towards democracy will be realized exclusively in the form of separatism. Until the entire country turns into an “ATO zone.”
What kind of “united country” will be the result is clearly demonstrated by the CEC data. The prime minister's party "People's Front" received the largest number of votes in seven western regions of Ukraine - Volyn (33,11% of votes), Rivne (28,82% of votes), Ternopil (35,86%), Ivano-Frankivsk (37,53). %), Khmelnitsky (25,68%), Chernivtsi (31,34%) and Lviv (32,02%) regions.
Considering the extremely tough anti-Russian platform of this party and the catastrophically declining turnout in the southeast, we can safely predict that if the current trend continues, the next Ukrainian parliament will be the parliament of the Western Ukrainian People's Republic.
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