Voters Committee: Bribery in parliamentary elections breaks record

18:23, 30.10.2012 1 min read

The Committee of Voters of Ukraine (CVU) has said that the parliamentary elections in Ukraine saw a record number of cases of the bribery of voters.

"We have never recorded so many cases of bribery in Ukrainian elections," CVU Chairman Oleksandr Chernenko said during a discussion on the results of the elections, which was held at the German Embassy in Ukraine on Tuesday.

He said last Sunday's elections had not brought the country closer to democratic standards, as a number of problems were recorded at all stages of the electoral process. In particular, Chernenko said that election commissions were not balanced, the counting of votes in some districts was being delayed, and a lot of cases of the bribery of voters were recorded in single-seat constituencies.

Chernenko said that there were no grounds to believe that the violations that were reported on the polling day could affect the election results. However, he said, the election results could seriously be affected by violations that are occurring during the counting of votes.