(JTA) – Representatives of Ukraine’s Jewish communities said they were pleased with the stinging defeat of nationalist candidates in parliamentary elections.
In Sunday’s parliamentary elections – the first since ouster of president Viktor Yanukovych in February in a revolution which triggered a territorial conflict with Russia – the far-right Svoboda party saw its take halved from 10 percent of the vote in 2012 to under the five-point threshold for seats won through proportional representation, a count of 99 percent of the votes showed.
The newly-formed Radical Party won eight percent of the vote but “the small number of right-wing radicals” who made …read more
Source: JTA
