
VERKHOVNA RADA CHAIRMAN OLEKSANDR MOROZ STATES 1932 - 1933 FAMINE AS GENOCIDE
KYIV, November 21 /Ukrinform/. While on a Tuesday working trip to Lviv and meeting there with officials of local self-government bodies, Verkhovna Rada Chairman Oleksandr Moroz said the Parliament will consider 1932 - 1933 Famine bills, which were initiated by President Viktor Yushchenko and the Regions Party, and will "make a just decision,"
In this connection Oleksandr Moroz recalled his native village and noted that he views the Famine as genocide.
As is known, on November 17 the parliamentary anti-crisis coalition, which incorporates the Oleksandr Moroz-led Socialist Party, refused to consider the presidential bill, which qualifies the famine as an act of genocide against the people of Ukraine.
The Regions Party faction initiated a bill on the same day, in which the term "genocide" was replaced with the phrase "famine, from which the Ukrainian people suffered," though the devastating famine was masterminded by the Stalin totalitarian regime. Oleksandr Moroz, who met with the officials of Ukraine's region, particularly sensitive to the problem of OUN - URA veterans, promised to objectively consider this delicate issue.
As he said, he will also initiate amendments to electoral legislation, toward shifting from today's proportional system to a mixed majority-proportional one, which will allow to make local communities duly represented and will allow electors to vote for political parties.
In the Speaker's opinion, no individual political force must be allowed to dominate in Ukraine.
Any political force, he noted, should realize its capability within the system of Ukraine's state order.
It should be reminded that, according to the Aleksandr Razumkov Center's sociological surveys, the Socialist Party, which joined the coalition with the Regions Party, sizeably weakened its footing in early November.
If new parliamentary elections were held right away the Socialist Party might count on collecting a meager 2.4 percent of the national electorate votes versus 5.69 percent in the March 2006 elections.
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