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| | Loser Takes All: Kuchma Coopts Parlament |
 | | Aside from the 177 votes from the pro-presidential For a United Ukraine, which has been renamed United Ukraine, and 31 votes from the oligarchic Social Democratic Party of Ukraine-united (SDPU-o), the vote was carried by seven Our Ukraine deputies who were immediately expelled from that faction, and Communists loaned for the vote. |
 | | Volodymyr Lytvyn, the head of the presidential administration and United Ukraine faction, became Rada chairman followed by Hennadiy Vasyliev, a member of the oligarch Labor Ukraine party, as first deputy chairman and with the post of deputy Rada chairman going to Oleksandr Zinchenko, the deputy head of the SDPU-o. |
 | | In a statement after Lytvyns election, Our Ukraine said that he was appointed Rada chairman, not voted in, and that the entire process showed a lack of respect for deputies and voters. |
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