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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsUkraine parliament votes to end the military crackdown on protesters across the country:
The #Ukraine Parliament just voted for a full demilitarization of the country, ordering all forces to return to their bases immediately.
34 Deputies from Yanukovych party voted with opposition in Parliament @aavst: 34 депутата от партии Регионов голосуют вместе с оппозицией
The 239 MPs present at Ukr. parliament session looks set to elect new speaker. The current one, Rybak, seems to have fled country.
... parliament is about to take up question of returning to the 2004 constitution.
In other words, Yanukovych now not only has a major crisis on the streets, hes about to have a constitutional crisis, as his own party has not showed up to the Rada, but the Rada is legally capable of making policy without them.
http://www.interpretermag.com/ukraine-liveblog-day-3-of-the-ukraine-crisis/#1313
It will be interesting to see how Yanukovych responds to this vote in parliament. Many members of his party, including the speaker of the parliament, seem to have fled the country. Hopefully, this will represent a democratic end to the violence.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)am I reading this right? HIs support is evaporating and some people are going over fleeing is the better part of valor? Not that I can blame them, mind you.
bemildred
(90,061 posts)pampango
(24,692 posts)http://en.pravda.com.ua/
http://www.interpretermag.com/ukraine-liveblog-day-3-of-the-ukraine-crisis/#1313
bemildred
(90,061 posts)Of course they will keep trying ...
oldhippie
(3,249 posts)Might make some difference.
pampango
(24,692 posts)This is about the image the image of a half-empty Rada, where only the opposition MPs and those who defected to them stayed to come up with solutions. In fact, large numbers of Yanukovychs camp have either defected, resigned, or deserted. Yanukovychs political support is crumbling by the minute, and what happened in the Rada is the surest sign that this aspect of the story will be making headlines tomorrow.
http://www.interpretermag.com/ukraine-liveblog-day-3-of-the-ukraine-crisis/#1313
You could make the case that in the short term Yanukovych could be very dangerous. With many the members of his party in parliament leaving the country, he has no majority in parliament. He can refuse to sign this legislation, however, and at any rate he has control over the military.
1000words
(7,051 posts)It's over for him. He knows it.