The election campaign will soon be entering the home stretch, and more likely than not methods used at that stage will be diverse, to put it mildly. What can we expect? How can we get ready? The Day's Tetiana Korobova interviewed Crimean Deputy Leonid Grach, leader of the Communist fraction.
"The current situation is increasing criminality in the elections. I have officially addressed the Public Prosecutor of the Autonomous Republic, heads of Security Service stations and militia precincts. I cautioned them that they would be exposed to pressure from corrupt bureaucrats at all levels, because these people are alarmed by the possibility of public exposure and of punishment by the law. Their only way out is parliamentary immunity. This and pandering by law enforcement authorities will predictably result in blackmail, violence, falsification, and direct rule by criminal elements in state structures, and the death of a law-governed state which has not had time to mature. Law enforcement agencies are now faced with a historic responsibility, because they know better than anyone else who in the current regime should be brought to court. They must bar them access to power. The results of the coming elections are easily foreseeable if carried out in strict accordance with the law. Any falsification could result in a social outburst, because the masses are past the point of endurance. Personally, I am confident that those responsible for protecting law and order are against further violence and bloodshed, and that they will make every effort to prevent blackmail, bribery, and the resultant lawbreaking and fraud.






