The people's choice from the nationalist Party " Svoboda " Irina Farion after counting 6, 25% of the protocols, loses on extraordinary elections to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine in the 116-m single-mandate district in Lviv region candidate from the party of " self-Help " Irina podoliak.
according to the Central election Commission of Ukraine, Farion gets 16, 6% of the vote went to the polls, Podolyak, 43, 01%.
in the elections to the Ukrainian Parliament in 2012 Farion has prevailed in the 1st from single-member districts of Lviv region.
Irina Farion known for his Russophobic views. For example, visiting in February 2010 one of the kindergartens in Lviv, being then elected representative of the people of Lviv regional Council, She told the children that their name is Natasha, Vova, Misha Masha - sound not in Ukrainian. In June 2012, on the initiative Farion was dismissed driver Lviv taxis, who did not want to shut down Russian music radio. She also expressed the opinion that singing in foreign languages, and in Russian, it is necessary to tax.
on Sunday, Ukraine held parliamentary elections. For a five-year period was chosen 423 MP: 198 in single-member constituencies and 225 party list with reduced barrier of 5%.
according to the national exit poll, the Ukrainian Parliament passes the 7 political parties, the leader of the party of the President " Block Petro Poroshenko 23, 0%, followed by " popular front " Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk 21, 3%, 3rd place party " self-Help " mayor of Lviv Andriy Sadovy, which is gaining 13, 2%. In addition, the Verkhovna Rada passes " the Opposition Bloc " seven, 6%, " Radical party of Oleh Liashko " - 6, 4%, the nationalist party " Svoboda " - 6, 3%, and the party of Yulia Tymoshenko's Batkivshchyna - 5, 6%. Party " the Right sector, the Communist party of Ukraine and the party of the former " regions " Sergey Tigipko's Strong Ukraine " in the Parliament are not - they scored no more than 3% of the votes when the vote threshold of 5%.
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