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04.09.2008

• Constitutional reform and Presidential elections in Ukraine [11.05.2004] - In Ukraine don’t exist influential or organized political forces, which would stand, in principle, against the main provisions of the reform. Furthermore, these provisions were incorporated into the program agendas of all political parties, which have been elected to current parliament according to the party lists. Criticism has been directed mainly against the motives of the reform’s initiators and "hastiness" of conducting it. As for "hastiness", then under the above circumstances ("everybody are pro"), the criticism seems to be phony. The more especially as Kuchma put forward his initiative in August 2002, i.e. more than two years before the presidential elections. [ ]