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PORA Urges Ballots Recount PDF Print E-mail
Thursday, 30 March 2006

At his press conference on March 29, PORA’s leader Vladyslav Kaskiv presented his analysis of the election campaign and the PORA-PRP bloc campaigning effort. He also outlined PORA’s plans for the future.

PORA-PRP have recognized the elections as fair and democratic. At the same time, ballot-counting at many voting stations in Ukraine has been marred with massive violations which distort voter preferences and significantly influence the final tally,” Kaskiv stressed. 

 “Realizing how vitally important plausible election results are for the people of Ukraine and the international community, we insist on a transparent recount of ballots. It’s no so much important who votes, as who and how the counting is done by,” Kaskiv remarked jeeringly.

 A decision to have a recount will indicate allegiance of Ukraine to high standards of democracy and international practice. “We believe vote-rigging has occurred because no one was held accountable for the election fraud in the 2004 presidential race,” Kaskiv argued. We, therefore, appeal to our president, a guarantor of constitutional rights and liberties of Ukrainians, to consider the issue and support our demand for a recount,” Kaskiv said. 

He warned,” It should be borne in mind that this is not the last election in Ukraine . If we fail to prove now that the law and democracy rule supreme in Ukraine, we’ll come face to face with a devastating situation at the next presidential election.” 

 “In our bid to press for a fair recount of ballots we are ready to cooperate with other political parties, regardless of their political positions,” Kaskiv stressed. “We do not challenge the integrity and democracy of the election process. But we cannot ignore numerous and glaring facts of falsifications during the counting of ballots which can acquire systemic and well-orchestrated dimensions,” Kaskiv noted.

Summing up PORA-PRP election campaign, Kaskiv said that the bloc will be widely represented in local councils, including 70 rayon and 3 oblast councils. Newly elected mayors of Lviv, Ternopil, Lutsk, Kolomia, Chernivtsi, Morshyn and other cities are all PORA-PRP candidates. These successes will enable us to implement our bloc’s basic agenda directly via local councils deputies,” Kaskiv said.

He also announced that, prior to the release of the official tally and consideration of all falsification claims, PORA-PRP will not admit their defeat in the elections. Still, we must admit that our election campaign has not been efficient enough and we could not reach out to all Ukrainians. Our basic problem is that we could not realize our main concept of a generation change in politics. The change will happen beyond any doubt. Meanwhile, we are surprised that totalitarianism in Ukraine has been replaced by cheap political populism,” Kaskiv admitted. 

At the press conference, Kaskiv apologized to his voters for his bloc’s poor showing. “I realize that we have the best voters in Ukraine. I promise that PORA will make up for it by its uncompromising and active policies. I feel personally responsible for our possible defeat. If the defeat becomes a reality, I see no other option for me but to resign as head of PORA political board. In doing so, I will try to introduce new standards of political responsibility for politicians. I am ready to hand in my resignation at the nearest session of the political board,” Kaskiv said. He also proposed his successor, saying Vitaly Klychko is best suited for this post. “We haven’t yet discussed this with Klychko,” Kaskiv added.   

As regards Kyiv’s new mayor, Kaskiv remarked that he respects the choice of Kyiv residents and welcomes Leonid Chernovetsky’s win. “The replacement of Omelchenko by Chernovetsky is a serious step in Kyiv’s development,” he noted.

“We hail the recreation of the orange coalition, but taking into account the crowd-pleasing stance of many orange politicians we believe there’s a likelihood of yet another stand-off between the orange leaders. Ukraine cannot afford to lose time as it needs urgent radical reform. This is PORA’s absolute priority and we will fight for its implementation,” Kaskiv added.

 

 
 
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CHARTER

CHARTER OF MAIDAN VALUES

The peaceful, democratic and at the same time extremely stylish and beautiful Orange revolution did not end up during the days of Presidential elections. Free and thoughtful choice was important, first, but far not the last step in the program of democratic changes enabled by the sufferings by millions of Ukrainians.

Orange revolution was not a choice of personalities, whom the power was delegated. It was a choice of values on which the New Ukraine was to be built.  Millions went out to the streets to stand up not for their mercantile interests, but for the high ideals of Freedom, Democracy, Morality, Justice, and Citizens’ Dignity. The historic choice of Ukrainian nation proves that the rebirth of Ukraine can be achieved first of all by adhering to the values that were expressed in the slogans of Maidan:

Freedom ‘FREEDOM CANNOT BE STOPPED!’

Aspiration of citizens to self-realization and self-assertion, to reaching basic human rights may not be limited by any brutal force. The citizens are allowed everything that is not forbidden by the law.

The use of force, manipulations, intimidation, violations of law and disrespect of moral norms will not save any government from failure. Because such a power will never be supported by its people.

Democracy “TOGETHER WE ARE MANY! WE CANNOT BE OVERCOME!”

The people’s will is a source of legitimacy and efficiency of the government’s actions. In case of brutal disrespect of peoples’ will, people have a right to protest. The joint collective action by self-organized citizens, based on the peaceful and non-violent struggle for their rights, cannot be won by the cliques of the usurpers of power. Unification of the efforts of citizens and organizations into the joint political civic platform of cooperation is the guarantee of effective democratic control of those in power and prevention from the possible reemergence of an authoritarian regime.

Unity ‘EAST AND WEST – TOGETHER!’

Ukraine is a united country, although its citizens are distinguished through cultural, linguistic, religious, regional and ethnical diversity. The residents of Ukraine are UKRAINIANS, CITIZENS OF ONE STATE notwithstanding their political views, cultural orientations and regional identities. All those who incite to regional (religious, linguistic, ethnic, etc.) split should be condemned by the citizens and prosecuted by law.

Rule of Law ‘CRIMINALS – TO JAIL, PROTECTION TO HONEST!’

All political criminals, including the organizers of election fraud, must incur the deserved and irrevocable punishment. The society and government must go through the period of clearance from the previous experience of abandoning the law. Only the genuine clarification will end with a real affirmation of the rule of law as a really functioning and the only possible principle of justice, instead of its manipulation to satisfy the private interests of a few.

The facts of stealing of state property and finances have to find the reflection in the court sentences. Criminals may not remain in the power, and the system of governance shouldn’t create new criminals. The government is supposed to act only within its functions and in compliance with the Law.

Europeanism ‘EUROPEAN UKRAINE’

Ukraine belongs to the European continent not only in the geographical sense. It is truly European civilization, and even more, it carries a seed of the future Europe, a valuable impulse for the renewing of democracy.

Nowadays Ukraine has to assert its European identity, become an integral participant of social, political, and economical processes in Europe. Institutionally this is measured by attaining the membership and active participation in the leading integrative communities at the European and Euro-Atlantic area. This is a way to satisfy the national interests of Ukraine in the strategic perspective.   

Action ‘WE ARE GOING!’

The control over adherence to the Maidan values is overtaken by the new generation of Ukrainians, whose outlook has been formed in the era of Independence. The generation, which gives all its hopes to self-realization with irrevocability of democratic changes in Ukraine.

The Maidan values can only be really settled through the active citizens’ participation in the political and civic life.

IT IS TIME TO LIVE AND WORK FOR THE COMMON GOAL!

Adopted by the delegates of the Congress of Civic Party PORA

22 August, 2005, Square of Independence

 
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