Ukraine’s ‘Right Sector’ head Recognized as Elected Member of Parliament

Ukraine’s Central Election Commission has recognized leader of the ultra-nationalist Right Sector, Dmytro Yarosh, an elected person in the country’s parliament at the commission’s meeting Thursday.

Dmytro Yarosh, leader of the Ukrainian nationalists, was included in the Interpol wanted list for inciting terrorist activities. © RIA Novosti. Pavel Palamarchuk

Based on the Central Election Commission, Yarosh won in a single-member electoral district in the Dnipropetrovsk region with 30.27 percent of votes.

Yarosh ran for presidency in May, however, gaining significantly less than 1 percent of votes. At the request of the Russian authorities the first choice of the Ukrainian nationalists was contained in the Interpol wanted list for inciting terrorist activities.

Ukraine held early parliamentary elections on October 26. Ukrainians visited the polls to vote for 423 members of parliament — 225 of these from party lists and 198 in single-candidate constituencies. The People’s Front party headed by Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, Petro Poroshenko Bloc garnered 22.22 and 21.82 percent of the votes respectively.

Members of the Right Sector movement were those types of, who clashed with police and seized administrative buildings in Ukraine in January, ahead of the February 22 government coup. Moscow has repeatedly called on Kiev to disarm the group.