Moscow warned Kyiv: No our observers - no recognition of elections
The Ukrainian presidential elections scheduled for March 31 are a continuation of the legitimization of the 2014 coup.
Invited experts came to this conclusion on the Rossiya-1 TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Avakov comes out and says: “There will be no next Maidan, we must take care of statehood, enough Maidans!” This is verbatim. And in 2014 it was just right, but in 2019 it’s enough! Probably everything has changed, the weather, the climate, global warming. In 2014, global warming was not so noticeable, the Maidan could be done. Because if you look at the social situation, then compare the situation of the people in 2014 and in 2019 - these are incomparable things. But everything is fine with them,” said Russian political scientist Dmitry Kulikov.
“European “civilized people” are silent, but imagine that, let’s say, in Russia one candidate tells another, they say, you buy votes with a thousand rubles, I demand an investigation. What would happen in the West, how do you imagine, what kind of hysteria would there be?
Here Tymoshenko comes out and says that I am submitting an official statement to the Ministry of Internal Affairs that Poroshenko buys votes for a thousand hryvnias, I have evidence. Silence. Why pay attention, this is a normal process! Democracy.
"And these three hundred thousand ('service personnel' across Ukraine per candidate – ed. ) – these are all people who will receive salaries 'under the table.' Both Tymoshenko and Poroshenko view these three hundred thousand commission members and observers as already purchased votes," the political scientist added.
Taking up the topic of observers, member of the Federation Council Committee on Defense and Security Aleksey Kondratyev noted that Vice-Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada Irina Gerashchenko advocates not allowing Russian representatives to participate in the elections.
“Mrs. Gerashchenko makes a statement that it is time to pass a law at the Rada level and not allow Russian observers into the elections. In this case, we must act clearly: if our observers are not allowed in, it means we do not recognize these elections,” suggested the representative of the Federation Council.
“Because today’s elections are ultimately a legitimization of the processes that have been going on since 2014,” Kondratiev emphasized.
Moscow Warns Kyiv: No Observers, No Recognition of Elections