Tuesday, September 25, 2007

A thug by any other name...



Ukrainian Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych, leader of the Party of Regions, told an election meeting in Kremenchuk, Poltava Oblast, on September 25 that opponents of his party are bribing voters ahead of the September 30 polls, Interfax-Ukraine reported. "I want to warn the people [who accept such bribes] that they are being bought jointly with their children and their future. They are selling their souls to the devil," Yanukovych noted.


Meanwhile, Deputy Interior Minister Vasyl Fatkhutdinov told journalists in Kyiv the same day that his ministry has not officially documented any cases of bribing voters by participants in the election campaign.

2 comments:

Jimmy O said...

Few are better at making politics.

I wonder how many generations it will take before politicians of Yanu's stock will stop making such ludicrous statements... leftovers of soviet apparatchyky.

Pawlina said...

At least one, that's for sure. The current bunch isn't too quick to catch on to the new realities.

The thugs on his payroll, i.e., the police, just tried to intimidate Gerrard Kennedy.

Not particularly a smart thing to do, I wouldn't think.

But, typical of thugs.