"ELECTIONS IN MUKACHEVE - REHEARSAL FOR PRESIDENTIAL RACE?"

Politics · 13:01 06.04.2004

On April 5th in UNIAN there was press conferences "ELECTIONS IN MUKACHEVE - REHEARSAL FOR PRESIDENTIAL RACE?" hold, organized by the Secretariat of Freedom of Choice Coalition of Ukrainian NGOs and Democracy Initiatives Foundation. The participants of press conference were Vladyslav Kaskiv - coordinator of Freedom of Choice Coalition of Ukrainian NGOs, Ilko Kucheriv - director of Democracy Initiatives Foundation Olexandr Solontai - manager of electoral projects of Freedom of Choice Coalition in Mukacheve.

On press conference they proclaimed the Statement of Freedom of Choice Coalition on events in Mukacheve and presented separate informational resource "Everything about elections in Mukacheve" located on www.hotline.net.ua

The participants of press conference had announced the plan of activities on public monitoring and democratization of electoral process inn frames of elections in Mukacheve (April 18 2004). The list of initiatives includes: " Exit Poll /Democracy Initiatives Foundation/ " parallel vote counting /Foundation of Regional Initiatives (Zakarpattya)/; " vote buying monitoring /Anti-corruption committee/; " monitoring of voters' lists formation/Secretariat of Freedom of Choice Coalition/; " testing of complex system of collection and systematization of electoral violations "Collector of electoral violations" /Secretariat of Freedom of Choice Coalition and local NGOs/; " holding a volunteer information and mobilization campaign among voters /youth organizations of the region/ " start of work of everyday news line "Everything about elections in Mukacheve" /Communications development center/; " organizing public debates between candidates /Secretariat of Freedom of Choice Coalition and local NGOs/.

The educational activities in projects mentioned above are provided in support of Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).

During the press conference Vladyslav Kaskiv had emphasized that even now "there are enough reasons to question the legality of any results of elections". To Mr. Kaskiv's mind "elections in Mukacheve are the Rubicon for Ukrainian authorities. If they end with forcing pressure of the result, without the attention of international community and what is the main - without adequate resistance of citizens, without a doubt nothing will stop spreading of this scenario to the whole territory of Ukraine. We will have to forget about democratic elections of Ukrainian President in Fall 2004".

Ilko Kucheriv has announced that "questioning (exit poll) will be hold by Consortium which will include prominent Ukrainian sociological organizations - Socis, KISI ("KMIS"), "Social monitoring", Razumkov's Center and Democracy Initiatives Foundation. Our main goal," said Mr. Kucheriv, "is to support holding of fair and just elections. It is important for them to be acknowledged by Ukrainian and international society as those that have passed fairly and justly. We need to prove that Ukraine is able to correspond to international standards of democracy and in a while to enter EU and NATO as a competent member"

Last week the site www.hotline.net.ua, devoted to elections in Mukacheve started working. You can see the information on run of electoral process directly from the place of events. Resource includes news line, forum, expert comments and list of articles "Media about elections in Mukacheve".

After end of elections of mayor in Mukacheve site will become a web-component of constant information service, devoted to elections of President in Fall 2004. News line and other materials will be spread to more than 10 000 addressees among which all-nation, regional and foreign media, NGOs, state establishments etc.

Web-page www.hotline.net.ua is a project of Freedom of Choice Coalition.

Detailed information on electoral projects in Mukacheve can be gained:

- in the Secretariat of Freedom of Choice Coalition via tel. 380 44 461 90 22 or by e-mail: info@coalition.org.ua - contact person Olexiy Nabozhniak. - in Democracy Initiatives Foundation via tel. 380 44 229 88 35 or by e-mail: dif@carrier.kiev.ua

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