Down1
29th October 2012, 04:46 PM
Oh no.
Svoboda, which draws on suspicion of Russia and of Ukraine's large Russian-speaking minority, was winning about 9 percent of the ballot in early returns on Monday, though many saw its surge into parliament as more of a protest vote against the government and main opposition rather than an endorsement of its policies.
The party wants to ban abortion and, while Tyahnybok has been quoted as saying sexual orientation is "everyone's personal business", Svoboda has made clear it opposes gay rights and has demanded a ban on the "propaganda of sexual perversions".
The party leader denies it has ever been anti-Semitic. But it has held rallies calling for limits on Jewish pilgrimages to the grave of an 18th-century Hassidic rabbi in the city of Uman.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/29/us-ukraine-election-nationalists-idUSBRE89S0T120121029
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/29/us-ukraine-election-nationalists-idUSBRE89S0T120121029
Svoboda, which draws on suspicion of Russia and of Ukraine's large Russian-speaking minority, was winning about 9 percent of the ballot in early returns on Monday, though many saw its surge into parliament as more of a protest vote against the government and main opposition rather than an endorsement of its policies.
The party wants to ban abortion and, while Tyahnybok has been quoted as saying sexual orientation is "everyone's personal business", Svoboda has made clear it opposes gay rights and has demanded a ban on the "propaganda of sexual perversions".
The party leader denies it has ever been anti-Semitic. But it has held rallies calling for limits on Jewish pilgrimages to the grave of an 18th-century Hassidic rabbi in the city of Uman.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/29/us-ukraine-election-nationalists-idUSBRE89S0T120121029
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/29/us-ukraine-election-nationalists-idUSBRE89S0T120121029