Results in local election, seen as test of pro-Russian PM's popularity
(1 Nov 2010) SHOTLIST
1. Wide of Independence Square
2. Mid of Ukrainian flag
3. Wide of Independence Square
4. Wide of Interfax Agency building
5. Wide of news conference
6. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Alexander Babakov, Russian Electoral Observer:
"The election was well organised. Looking across the range we couldn't exclude some technical mistakes, but from my point of view, I visited a few polling stations, I could say that there were no reasons to say that this election wasn't legitimate."
7. Various cutaways of media
8. Wide of news conference by election analysts
9. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Mikhail Pogrebinsky, Election analyst and Director of the Kiev Centre for Political and Conflict Studies :
"This election was very useful for authority party (Party of Regions) to approve their legitimacy, because there have been many juridical claims about majority and political reforms. This election should now reflect that people could trust the Party of Region at least for some years"
10. Cut away camera screen
11. Mid of media
12. Wide of analysts
13. Various set up shots of Deputy head of the "Batkivshchina" party and former Deputy Prime Minister Hryhoriy Nemyria
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Hryhoriy Nemyria, Deputy head of the "Batkivshchina" party:
"These local elections are the dirtiest elections in Ukraine since independence. It is widely known after the Orange revolution all elections, whether it's local, parliamentary or presidential have been considered as generally free and fair in correspondence with European standards. This elections were first elections conducted under the full authority of the new president and the new government."
15. Wide of "Batkivshchina" party office building
STORYLINE
An exit poll on Monday said the party headed by Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych had swept regional elections.
But the main opposition party, run by former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, has called the vote the dirtiest in the past 20 years and refuses to
recognise results in three key provinces.
The exit poll, conducted by the Ukrainian arm of GfK, an international market research firm, said Monday that Yanukovych's Party of Regions received 36.2 percent of the vote in local councils.
Tymoshenko's party got 13.1 percent.
Sunday's vote was seen as a test of Yanukovych's commitment to democracy after his first fraud-marred grab at the presidency sparked the Orange Revolution in 2004.
Critics say Yanukovych is seeking to build an authoritarian state.
"These local elections are the dirtiest elections in Ukraine since independence," Deputy head of the "Batkivshchina" party and Tymoshenko's former Deputy Prime Minister Hryhoriy Nemyria claimed on Monday.
"After the Orange revolution all elections, whether it's local, parliamentary or presidential have been considered as generally free and fair in correspondence with European standards. This elections were first elections conducted under the full authority of the new president and the new government, he said"
However a Russian election observers said "election was well organised" and "legitimate".
Election analysts said the predicted results could prove to be a major victory for Yanukovych's party with Mikhail Pogrebinsky, Director of the Kiev Centre for Political and Conflict Studies, declaring "this election should now reflect that people could trust the Party of Region at least for some years."
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