After strong showings at the polls a few years ago, Ukraine’s far-right has sunk to virtual electoral oblivion, and it’s hard to know where or if it will reappear. Its role in defending protestors against the Yanukovych government, overthrown in February this year, didn’t translate into widespread support in either the presidential election in May or in Kyiv’s municipal elections.
Where this leaves formerly far-right parties like Svoboda is unclear. Despite a PR campaign designed to claim a central position during this year’s protests, and five ministerial posts in the interim government, Svoboda won only one per cent of the vote …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
