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It is rather obvious now that the panic surrounding the swine-flu, the ‘mysterious’ pneumonia, and other deaths caused by a ‘mysterious’ flu in Ukraine is nothing more than simple pre-election propaganda.

Of course, there are deaths by flu, and yes, also a few people have died of pneumonia – not to mention there are 12 confirmed cases of swine-flu. However, people die of flu every year in every country, especially in the fall and winter. And Ukraine is not the only country in the world where swine-flu has occurred, not even to mention the little amount of people infected so far in comparison to other countries.

In January 2010 Ukraine will hold its presidential elections, and the pre-election campaigns are up and running. The influence of this pre-election fever became noticable when Yushenko (the current president) and Prime Minister Yulia Timoshenko, disagreed on the amount of deaths by swine-flu, which escalated into rounds of finger pointing and accusations of panicking people or not truthfully informing the public.

These days, you can see many people wearing masks on the metro and on the street, afraid they might catch this ‘mysterious’ flu. Furthermore, all the schools and universities in the whole of Ukraine are closed until November 25th.

Yesterday, Yushenko told the public the elections might be postponed, but today the speaker of parliament Lytvyn said there is no reason for this.

However, the disagreement on how to act during a flu epidemic (which, I must admit, after more than 100 deaths in a short period of time, it is), also leads to statements of officials saying a state of emergency is needed. According to the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, NSDC, Rayisa Bohatyryova:

As the country’s politicians cannot join their forced to combat the flu epidemic, the state of emergency may help to do this

Well, that might be a campaign/election fraud policy either, since currently, you can not trust anyone. Not to forget, it would not be so bad for Yuschenko, as he is not very popular and will almost certainly lose next January’s elections.

The pre-election fever will go on for a while, and I’ll try to keep you all updated on this interesting series of soap-politics.