Yanukovych Tops Ukraine Vote as Monitors Label Ballot Unfair
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Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych’s ruling party got more votes than its rivals in parliamentary elections that monitors called unfair in a blow to the former Soviet republic’s aspirations to bolster its European ties.
The Party of Regions had 34 percent of party-list votes and was leading in more than half of the 450-seat legislature’s 225 single-mandate constituencies, preliminary results showed. State media favored the governing party in election coverage, while campaign financing was opaque, administrative resources were abused and opposition candidates imprisoned, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe said.