I chaired the largest - ever
parliamentary observer missions — 30 MEPs — to the last Palestinian elections, the election of President Abbas (Abu Mazen) in January 2005 and then the parliamentary elections which saw the victory of Hamas in January 2006.
Andreas Gross, head of the
Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe's (PACE)
observer mission, told reporters in Kiev last week that «Ukrainians deserve better than these elections.