Darth Vader, Yoda, Chewbacca Aim To Invade Ukraine's Govt. In Upcoming Elections

An anonymous reader writes The BBC and RT report that 16 men named after the Star Wars character "Darth Vader" are running for parliamentary elections in Ukraine later this month. In addition, a Chewbacca, Palpatin, Padme Amidala and Grand Jedi Master Yoda will stand in the snap October 26 polls. All of them have been nominated for parliament by the Internet Party of Ukraine. "This is not the first time Darth Vader has stood for election in Ukraine. In April, a man going by that name tried running for presidency, but his application was rejected by the Central Electoral Commission. One official suggested that his campaign could be an attempt to make a mockery of elections in Ukraine - possibly by Russia."

One thing is for sure

[Anonymous Coward]

Han Solo votes first.

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[Teresita]

Look, it's not that I like the government in Ukraine, I hate it, but there's nothing I can do about it right now. It's all so far away from here.

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[flyingsquid]

Hm, that's funny. They've got Vader, Chewbacca,Yoda, Palpatine... but strangely, no Admiral Akbar. What could that mean unless... unless....

IT'S A TRAP!!!!!!!

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[nemyax]

Ex-who?

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[Peter Kingsbury]

Yulia Tymoshenko. I know, I know, whoosh.

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[nemyax]

Whoosh what? She was never president.

Darth Vader?

[BarbaraHudson]

I didn't think Putin was interested in running in the Ukraine, just running it.

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[Anonymous Coward]

With estimates reaching over * 1 millions deaths * caused be the US lead Iraq conflict, I can see why Putin would be your first thought for an evil emperor. I mean a little genocide never hurt nobody, right? And besides, Russia isn't playing nice with the world banking regime. That's a true crime against humanity.

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[Anonymous Coward]

Russia is not playing nice with anything. Apparently sanctions do work though because a lot of rich folk are getting screwed. So hopefully soon Putin has an accident with a bear (the kind that carries subsonic sniper rifles) while riding a horse half naked and the entire shitstorm in Ukraine stops.

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[Anonymous Coward]

Russia is a big country rich in natural resources. If they played nice they'd be crushed by that country that is always at war with defenseless countries.
It is irrelevant that you hate Putin. Most Russians like him and what he has done for the country, and that's what matters in a Democracy (or a Republic with democratically-elected representatives).

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[Zontar The Mindless]

Love and hate are irrelevant when discussing a mad dog.

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[nemyax]

Apparently sanctions do work though because a lot of rich folk are getting screwed.

The purported purpose of the sanctions was not to screw over some fat cats, but to make Russia change its course in the conflict. Russia has not changed it, and Kiev has been acting on more or less Moscow's terms. Ergo, the sanctions do not work.

Re: Darth Vader?

[Optali]

Over 1 million deaths? Sources please? Or maybe you are using the Russky scale of counting, LOL. And if we recall that part of the weaponry used by the IS comes from your dear customer Assad... Greetings to Vladimir :)

Internet Party of Ukraine

[BringsApples]

Founded and led by Dmytro (or Dmitry) Golubov the party claims to be the first Internet party in the world, its slogan is "electronic government against bureaucracy" and it wants to "create an electronic government in Ukraine".

The party was formed between 2006 and 2007, by the alleged Ukrainian hacker, Dmytro Golubov. The founding congress was held on October 1, 2007. On March 1, 2009 in a hotel complex "Magnolia" in Odessa, was held the first official congress of the party.

The vice-president of the Union of Advocates of Ukraine Petro Boyko and Denys Grigorev, world champion from Thai boxing in super-heavyweight are also founding members.

Sounds like a good group of folks...

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[Anonymous Coward]

I they are serious about politics, why are they using fake characters as candidates ?

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[Anonymous Coward]

That is what all politicians do... most of them just take on boring and pretend-to-care characters.

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[Xest]

Problem is, look what happened to Estonia, they were victims of a Russian state sponsored cyber attack which was quite problematic because they had built their state around heavy internet focus for provision of services and so forth.

It's a good idea, if you're a nation that has enough control of it's borders to prevent physical access to important internet infrastructure from Russian agents, and if you can withstand Russian cyber attack both focussed hacks and dumb DDOS attacks, but I don't think Ukraine is

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[quantaman]

I'm all for fun, but in a country that just overthrew a dictator and is fighting a war against separatists nutjobs, spending all this money for this, it's hard to think they are just doing that for fun. And as a star wars fan, using star wars characters for evil is really despicable. Fuck Putin.

Only a small section of the country is actively at war, outside of that region the conflict is a major issue, but it's not really going to affect their daily lives too much. They're still hugely concerned with the war, but they're still going to live their lives.

If anything this is a great idea, Putin's spent months selling the idea that Ukraine is overflowing with Nazi's. There's not much better way to counteract that narrative than to run Star Wars characters in the elections.

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[r1348]

Svoboda and Pravy Sektor are not Putin's inventions...

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[quantaman]

Svoboda and Pravy Sektor are not Putin's inventions...

Neither are the UK Independence party, Golden Dawn in Greece, the National Front in France, or the various Tea Party groups in the US, and in elections they all did about as well as Svoboda or better.

Do you think Britain, Greece, France, and the US are overrun by Nazis?

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[nemyax]

in elections they all did about as well as Svoboda or better

Pfff elections schmelections. Svoboda got the defense posts in government without playing that stupid game.

Re:Very suspisious

[dunkelfalke]

No, but then again neither Britain, nor Greece nor France and so on arm their neo-nazis and give them right to kill people. Ukraine does [wikipedia.org], though.

Re: Very suspisious

[Optali]

The fuck mate. They are fucking at war. Of course they are living their lives. But it's not like all fun and games. I mean fuck, just imagine they were just right there in California being invaded by some group of jerks or something the like, it's not fucking normal.

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[nemyax]

They are fucking at war.

They'd be winning if they fought instead.

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[Optali]

No idea.

The information that we get here is that there's a pretty lot going on. Just as in Syria there are foreign fighters on both sides:

Right wing and Left wing ... on BOTH sides. I mean right wing guys in the pro-Russian and pro-Ukrainian side and left wing guys also on the pro-Russian and the Pro-Ukrainian side. I thus assume that the involvement is far greater than what is may seem.

Last time our (Dutch) researchers tried to get to the MH117 crash site there was heavy shelling going on. It now see

Don't blame me

[rsilvergun]

I voted for Skywalker.

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[flyingsquid]

It doesn't matter who you vote for, the problem is that the system is inherently corrupting. Sure, right now, he may be young and idealistic, full of nothing but good intentions. But once he's actually elected, what happens? He'll have to compromise, raise money, fight political battles, worry about re-election, fight wars... in no time at all he's turned to the Dark Side, more machine than man, twisted and evil. I mean, look at Obama. He came in all hope and change, and what happens? He secretly creates a

"...a mockery of elections in Ukraine"

[Opportunist]

Thank god we didn't allow to make a mockery of the elections in the Ukraine and instead allowed them to make a mockery of democracy altogether...

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[Anonymous Coward]

How is throwing out a dictator (he fled actually) a mockery of democracy ?

Re:"...a mockery of elections in Ukraine"

[ilguido]

Because the "dictator" was democratically elected, I suppose.

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[r1348]

A democratically elected dictator, running within the limits of his mandate, you mean?

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[nemyax]

He is a dick all right, but he's just a tater short.

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[Anonymous Coward]

If you really think BBC is as bad as RT, maybe you should turn on your brain. Just saying...

Re: virus signature scanners

[Optali]

For your own good: Stop immediately eating the mushrooms from your basement,

Get them a candidate that's worth the parliament

[nemyax]

What? No Jar-Jar Binks?

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[aevan]

He's already ran in the States

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[russotto]

What? No Jar-Jar Binks?

He's the incumbent.

Re: Is this Ukraine or Uranus?

[Optali]

Not much different, both are full of shit

Ironically

[xfizik]

Ironically, those Star Wars character candidates are more adequate than most of Ukrainian mainstream politicians...

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[Nyder]

Ironically, those Star Wars character candidates are more adequate than most politicians...

You put a few extra words in there, so I fixed it for ya.

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[xfizik]

Yeah, hard to argue with this...

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[Teresita]

Look, here are Gaffi sticks, bantha tracks, its just that I've never heard of Sandpeople voting for anything this big before.

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[Megol]

Idiot.

Emperor Palpatine

[penguinoid]

*Wonders how many people would rather vote for Emperor Palpatine than for our current politicians.*

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[penguinoid]

Vote Palpatine! No more evil, much more competent.

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[Kyusaku Natsume]

I'm from Mexico and I would gladly vote for him given the chance.

Doesn't much matter who is on the ballot

[russotto]

or who anyone votes for, as one thing's certain: Putin's cronies will be doing the counting.

I altered the election results.

[Snufu]

Pray I do not alter them again.

I have a bad feeling about this

[Ukab the Great]

Ukranian Darth Vader will solve the seperatist rebel problem by incinerating the planet that shelters them. Incidentally that will also solve Ukraine's debt problem, crime, and energy dependence on Russia.

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[nemyax]

Ukranian Darth Vader will solve the seperatist rebel problem by incinerating the planet that shelters them.

Not exactly. He will look on indifferently as his puppet master does it.

Trying to take advantage of humorous write-ins?

[Alex Hogan]

I recall that many countries have a large number of write-in votes for these characters. I think I remember Australia having so many they were considering making it a civil offense to write in a fictional character. Could running under these names be an attempt to take advantage of these write-ins?