{"id":379,"date":"2004-11-27T16:07:29","date_gmt":"2004-11-27T22:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=379"},"modified":"2004-11-27T16:08:43","modified_gmt":"2004-11-27T22:08:43","slug":"viktors-victory-beginning-to-vanish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=379","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine: Viktor’s Victory Beginning to Vanish"},"content":{"rendered":"

The controversy around the Ukrainian presidential election continues to swirl, as Ukraine’s parliament is now calling for a do-over<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ukraine’s Parliament passed a non-binding resolution Saturday to annul the results of this week’s presidential election, CNN reported.<\/p>\n

The lawmakers also voted to dissolve the nation’s Central Election Commission that declared the winner of the election, which has been widely condemned by international observers as being rigged.<\/p>\n

That commission ruled Viktor Yanukovych, the government’s hand-picked, pro-Moscow successor, had won the election.<\/p>\n

Parliament’s Saturday resolution said the results did not reflect the will of the Ukrainian voters and should be made invalid. It also said new elections are needed.<\/p>\n

It is not presently clear which governmental entity has the authority to void the election, the Parliament, President Leonid Kuchma, or the nation’s high court, which has stayed Yanukovych’s inauguration pending the outcome of an investigation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is beginning to make the Bush-Gore 2000 results look as cut and dried as they really were.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The controversy around the Ukrainian presidential election continues to swirl, as Ukraine’s parliament is now calling for a do-over. Ukraine’s Parliament passed a non-binding resolution Saturday to annul the results of this week’s presidential election, CNN reported. The lawmakers also voted to dissolve the nation’s Central Election Commission that declared the winner of the election, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-general","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}