ELECTION observers say democracy in Ukraine has suffered a setback in legislative polls marked by the absence of the jailed opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko.
"Considering the abuse of power, and the excessive role of money in this election, democratic progress appears to have reversed in Ukraine," said OSCE special co-ordinator Walburga Habsburg Douglas. "One should not have to visit a prison to hear from leading political figures in the country."
President Viktor Yanukovych's ruling Regions Party led Sunday's ballot with 35 per cent of the vote against the 22 per cent collected by the Tymoshenko alliance, partial results said based on half the precincts reporting.
The 2004 Orange Revolution leader missed the polls because of a seven-year jail sentence she was given last October on abuse of office charges that both Tymoshenko and Western governments view as a vendetta by the president.
An unusually firmly phrased OSCE report noted that the Verkhovna Rada vote was "characterised by the lack of a level playing field, caused primarily by the abuse of administrative resources, lack of transparency of campaign and party financing, and lack of balanced media coverage".
"Certain aspects of the pre-election period constituted a step backwards compared with recent national elections," the OSCE report said.
The report also remarked on a voting process that "was not always transparent" and cases where ballot tabulation could not be fairly monitored - the case in about a third of the polling stations visited by observers.
"Ukrainians deserved better from these elections. The 'oligarchisation' of the whole process meant that citizens lost their ownership of the election, as well as their trust in it," said Andreas Gross of the accompanying Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) delegation.
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