Ukraine’s recent local elections showed that voters want to see continued progress in the areas of legal reform and the fight against corruption, the U.S. ambassador in Kyiv said this week.
Sunday’s elections “showed the resiliency of Ukrainian democracy in the face of difficult economic conditions and Russian aggression,” U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt said Friday in remarks to the second U.S.-Ukraine Business Council and Kyiv School of Economics Conference on Legal and Governance Reform, held in Ukraine’s capital.
The estimated 46 percent turnout, Pyatt added, “was in line with previous local Ukrainian elections, and significantly higher than U.S. local election …read more
Source: Voice of America
