Srdja Trifkovic (Observer from Central European Group for Political Monitoring)
- "This is a well-organized election campaign, with no extraordinary events."
Leon Litinetski (former member of the Israeli Knesset)
- "The day of silence was held in accordancewith the law." He also noted that these elections were characterized by greater transparency due to arecord number of observers and a wide representation of observers from various political parties atpolling stations.
Oleksandr Chernenko (Chairman, Committee of Voters of Ukraine)
- "Generally speaking, thesituation is very tense at the polling stations. But the number of violations that we get does notexceed the normal level."
Cyrill Svoboda (former Minister of Foreign Affiars
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Czech Republic)
- Former Czech Foreign MinisterHe said he "did not see any violations." "There is no doubt that the election was fair andtransparent." "Democracy is alive in Ukraine." "I was pleasantly surprised that people are willing to govote. A lot of people, just like at home."
Nicholas Griffin (EP Delegation, MEP from UK)
- "Ukraine is a young democracy. And when I am toldthat here there is intimidation of candidates, or pressure on the media, which apparently does notexist in Europe, in the UK, I say that all of this is quite characteristic of the British electoral system,which is not perfect. So who are we to criticize the Ukrainian electoral system
?”
Sergey Markov (Observer
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The Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation)
- "The elections to theUkrainian parliament were successful, democratic and organized according to standards even betterthan in some of the European Union member states."
Kazbek Taisaev (Observer
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The Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation)
- "Everything wasorganized very well, at the high level, and in general the elections were held at a worthy level."
Thierry Mariani (Observer, French MP and former Minister)
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“
Transparent ballot boxes,webcameras, live debates in front of million TV viewers. It is difficult for an election to be more
transparent than that.”
“This is the first time that I have seen
such a transparent competition.
“These elections are a great
success for Ukraine and a great success for democracy.
“Today Ukraine is a real Europeandemocracy.”
“Collaboration between the EU and Ukraine is absolutely necessary. I hope this can lead to thesigning of the Association Agreement. It’s in our mutual interest.”
Vladimir Titov (Observer from CIS-EMO)
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"At the moment all the violations registered by our expertsare not systematic... We can not say that the election is terrible, undemocratic."
Svetlana Goryacheva (Observer of Inter-Parliamentary of the CIS)
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"No violations were registered atthe 17 polling stations in Kyiv I visited. The only thing is bad light in some of polling booths, but this isnot a violation, it only created discomfort for voters."
Rosie Gray
