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Article: The 2002 parliamentary elections as an indicator of the sociopolitical development of Ukraine.
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- Demokratizatsiya
- Article date:
- September 22, 2002
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The returns of Ukraine's parliamentary elections of 31 March 2002 turned out to be too contradictory to provide grounds for final conclusions as regards the success or failure of the democratic transformation in Ukraine. In fact, the elections became only a stage of the nonuniform political process, in which modernization and democratization coexist with archaic, post-Soviet tendencies. The election campaign revealed serious deviations from standards of transparent democratic process. Yet, in general, the election results were successful because the democratic forces effectively improved their positions in parliament, although they fell short of an absolute majority of ...