Ukraine's Parliamentary Elections: What Next?


 

Publication Date: April 2006

Publisher: Heritage Foundation (Washington, D.C.)

Author(s): Ariel Cohen

Research Area: Politics

Keywords: Russia and Eurasia

Type: Brief

Coverage: Ukraine

Abstract:

On March 26, Ukraine's voters elected 450 members to the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's parliament, from an array of 45 parties and blocs. Charles Tannock, a British Member of the European Parliament (MEP), who oversaw the Parliament's election observers, said Ukraine had passed an important test of democracy in an "exemplary" fashion.