Regionals will get majority seats in parliament convening VII

The return of a mixed electoral system in 2012, the Party of Regions will get majority seats in parliament. About this newspaper "Delo". The newspaper reminds that in 2002, pro-presidential bloc "For a United Ukraine" scored less than 12% of the vote, but, despite the failure, was able to get more than a third of seats in the Verkhovna Rada (175 seats). "This kind of mathematics is possible only in one case - when the people's deputies elected by a mixed proportional-majority system, which intends to return the current government is closest to the parliamentary elections in 2012" - the newspaper said. The election of half of the 450 deputies in single-mandate constituencies will allow the team of Viktor Yanukovych not only to repeat the success of predecessors, but also greatly exceed it. "Formula" disproportionate "success lies in the pro-government forces MPs mazhoritarschikah.'s Worth remembering that in the parliamentary elections of 2002 from 94 MPs self-promoted, who won and passed in the Verkhovna Rada, 70 people immediately entered the pro-presidential faction United Ukraine", - recalls newspaper. The publication emphasizes that the candidates from the ruling party who are elected in single member constituencies, working administrative resources. Its indirect effect is manifested in the advancement of the pro-presidential forces many public figures - chief doctor, university rectors, directors, which in themselves are highly respected in their constituencies. Electoral support for the current pro-presidential forces, even now - at the peak of unpopular decisions of power - higher than that of the bloc "For a United Ukraine" in 2002, constituting, according to the Marshall Center. Razumkov 15,7% (the study of February - March 2011). "It is clear that by 2012, when it put into operation the entire infrastructure for the championship on football of Euro 2012, but the power in the tradition of pre-election populism will raise wages and sotsvyplaty, the rating of the Party of Regions will increase significantly," - says the publication. "Thus," the moment of force, "which transformed the 12%-ing the support of voters in 175 seats, lets hope the Party of Regions to create a parliamentary majority of more than 226 people" - sums up the newspaper. As we know, the working group to prepare amendments to the electoral law provides go to the mixed majority-proportional election system, a ban on the participation of units in the elections and to increase the electoral threshold for parties from 3% to 5%. Ministry of Industry