100% Counted: Alien, 35.32%; Predator, 25.05%

“No matter who wins, we lose.”


Yanukovych, 35.32%
Tymoshenko, 25.05%
Tihipko, 13.16%
Yatsenyuk, 6.96%
Yushchenko, 5.45%
Symonenko, 3.55%
Lytvyn, 2.35%
Against all, 2.2%
Tyahnybok, 1.43%
Hrytsenko, 1.2%
Bohoslovska, 0.41%
Moroz, 0.38%
Kostenko, 0.22%
Suprun, 0.19%
Protyvsikh, 0.16%
Pabat, 0.14%
Ratushnyak, 0.12%
Brodsky, 0.06%
Ryabokon, 0.03%

The first round has become yet another triumph of style over substance and promise over practice.

The second round will be perceived as bipolar by many, but will hardly be any different.

Without transparent campaign finance, without a mature voting culture and without grassroots protests, free and fair elections go only so far.

To me, it will be Alien vs. Predator.

After voting Tymoshenko in ‘06, ‘07 and ‘08 — and watching her all the while — I don’t believe in a born-again Tymoshenko. Not anymore.

Sources:
http://pravda.com.ua/articles/4b537cbbca600

Protyvsikh Tells His Campaign Financing Story

This guy has a sense of humor to vote for!

Presidential candidate Vasyl Protyvsikh: Money help came from, first of all, my friends, who are scattered all over the world, the rich ones. Yesterday, this pal of mine calls me from Chicago and says, “What can I do to help you? How can it be done?” (He’s been living there for 15 years; his wife is a professor at a Chicago medical university.) My relatives, my fellow villagers...

In other words, he’s telling us that the money comes from his own village and from Ukrainian Village?

Or maybe it comes from the guys who sang the “Ukrainian Bell Carol” in ER Season 2, Episode 10?

Video uploaded from: http://censor.net.ua/go/offer/ResourceID/138695.html
Original source: http://www.1tv.com.ua

Presidential Candidate Vasyl Protyvsikh (Vasyl Againstall)

This man obviously got the best of our system. He now wants to get the best of those who want to get rid of that system.

He masquerades as the “against all” candidate. Meet Vasyl Protyvsikh, president of Ivano-Frankivsk Chamber of Commerce and a former chief of Ivano-Frankivsk Customs.

Presidential candidate Vasyl Protyvsikh: I was thinking about this question: Uh...the government is for the people, the president is for the people, the Verkhovna Rada in its entirety is for the people. Now who’s against the people that they’re so bad off? And all of this prompted me to, that is, express the will of the people who...who are against Ya [nukovych] and against Yu [lia/shechenko].

Changing his second name from Humenyuk to Protyvsikh (proty vsikh — against all) probably cost him a few hundred hryvnias.

Running for president costs Hr. 2.5M ($300K), a sum required of all approved candidates.

Central Election Commission registrars had a problem declining his second name but didn’t decline his application.

Some 2.73% voted against all in the September 2007 preterm parliamentary election.

In a tight and high-stakes presidential race, even 0.1% can be all that matters.

How much Protyvsikh will siphon and — and from who — remains to be seen.

Video uploaded from: http://censor.net.ua/go/offer/ResourceID/138005.html
Original source: http://www.1tv.com.ua