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The Regions... Factbox FACTBOX-Ireland's political parties Wed, Oct 13 2010 Related News UPDATE 1-Russia, Ukraine fail to agree new gas deal Wed, Oct 27 2010 UPDATE 1-PREVIEW-Gas back on agenda for Putin's Ukraine visit Tue, Oct 26 2010 Kyrgyz parties agree vote recount after protests Wed, Oct 13 2010 Kyrgyz vote front-runner says seeks broad coalition Tue, Oct 12 2010 Related Topics World » By Richard Balmforth KIEV | Sun Oct 31, 2010 10:30am EDT KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine voted on Sunday for local councils and mayors in an election which should provide the first real clues to President Viktor Yanukovich's standing at home since his election last February. The Regions Party, backbone of the parliamentary majority supporting Yanukovich, is taking on a host of rival parties for local councils which will be responsible for implementing his economic reform policies. But, in a hark-back to the fraught run-off last February in which Yanukovich beat former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko, the air was thick with accusations of imminent vote-rigging. Tymoshenko herself, who heads the Fatherland party and remains Yanukovich's bitter foe, said on the eve of the vote: "There is no limit to what these people will do. They will falsify the vote. You can depend on it." Iryna Bekeshkina of the Democratic Initiative political research foundation told Reuters the elections would be the ruling party's first test of democracy. "But the danger these elections represent for democracy is very high," she said. Some opposition parties say thousands of forged ballot papers have turned up in Kharkiv, in eastern Ukraine, as well as in other parts of the country. They also accuse the Regions of exploiting an unfair advantage by using the resources of the ruling administration -- such as official vehicles -- to mobilize voters on their side. "There will be a big temptation for the new authorities to use administrative resources. This is a big danger for future elections," Bekeshkina said. Yanukovich's Regions Party is strong in the highly-populated Russian-speaking east, which forms the president's power base, and in Crimea. Tymoshenko is strong in the Ukrainian-speaking west and center. Some opinion polls showed that support for the Regions has dipped since Yanukovich took power in the ex-Soviet republic. Commentators say a failure to deliver on campaign pledges, such as improving the local business climate by granting tax breaks to small businesses, has played a part in this. WIDESPREAD RESENTMENT There is also widespread resentment at a big hike in domestic gas prices -- at the insistence of the International Monetary Fund -- and the government's pension reform plans which will raise the retirement age to 65 years for men and women. Tymoshenko's party is not the only one girding for a fight with the Regions Party. 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