Chewbacca Arrested Driving Darth Vader To Polls In Ukraine; Emperor Palpatine Wins City Council Seat

zerohedge.com / by Tyler Durden on 10/27/2015 17:45

As much as we’d like to believe in the fairytale that the seeds of democracy can take root anywhere in the world at any time as long as the will of the people is strong, that just isn’t the case.

Sometimes, the circumstances surrounding “elections” just aren’t conducive to the perpetuation of the democratic process and attempts to derive anything meaningful in terms of divining the preferences of the electorate are hopelessly complicated by questions about the integrity of the polling process.

Take Syria for instance, where some are now suggesting that Bashar al-Assad may hold elections even as the country’s years-old civil war still rages. And then there is of course Turkey, where President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has done virtually everything in his power to subvert the democratic process on the way to ensuring that one way or another, AKP will win an absolute majority in parliament.

Well, now that Syria has become the mainstream media’s geopolitical topic du jour, Ukraine has faded into the background but on Sunday, the country held local elections which served as a kind of referendum on where Ukrainians stand in terms of i) the current government in Kiev, ii) the nationalist movement as embodied by the various “volunteer” battalions fighting in the east, and iii) the pro-Russian separatist movement. Here’s a bit of color from AP for what it’s worth:

Four exit polls from Ukraine’s local elections released Monday indicated the governing coalition would retain its dominant position in the west and center of the country despite widespread disappointment with the government of President Petro Poroshenko.

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