DNR and LC Kiev offered a compromise date of the election – RBC

Elections in the DNI (archive photo)

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The fact that the representatives of the LC and the DNI in the meeting of the political sub-group of the Contact Group on the settlement of the Ukraine, which meets in Minsk offered to hold elections in Donbass February 21, 2016, a spokesman for the LC the negotiations Vladislav Dana transmits LuganskInformTsentr.

According to Dinah, the representatives of the republics to prepare a “schedule” of political performance of each item of the Minsk Agreement. Dana noted that the plan was prepared “on the basis of current legislation and regulations of Ukraine and the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, as well as the norms of the OSCE.” With these rules, the Republic “figured out the date of the local elections in Donbass” – February 21, 2016.

According to Dinah, in the case of the implementation of the plan submitted by the parties will be able to “fully enforce political points” in terms of making Amendments to the Constitution of Ukraine, includes securing the permanent nature of the special status of certain regions of Donetsk and Lugansk regions and the adoption of the law on local elections in some areas.

It was previously announced that local elections in the DNI and the LC 18 October and 1 November respectively. The leaders of the breakaway republics and Igor Zakharchenko, Alexander Carpenter in mid-September signed a decree on holding elections. This Zakharchenko noted that the elections will take place in several stages, and finally to complete the electoral process power DNI plan in the first half of 2016.

held in the Donbass separate elections criticized in Kiev, and in the United States and Europe. Immediately after the announcement of the elections, the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko said that the elections would be devastating “for the process of de-escalation of tension in certain regions of Donetsk and Lugansk regions.” Later, the Ukrainian leader urged the international community to expand sanctions against Russia because of the elections in Donbass. About inconsistency of separate elections Minsk Agreement stated the representatives of foreign ministries of the United States and Germany.

The point of disagreement between Kiev and the self-proclaimed republics of local elections is that the Ukrainian authorities insist on holding elections in the Donbass region in one day election in Ukraine (October 25). Elections to the date of those who called authorities and LC DNI, Kiev calls are not relevant agreements Minsk. In one of the paragraphs of the February agreement in Minsk said on holding of “local elections in accordance with Ukrainian law and the law of Ukraine” On temporary order of local government in some regions of Donetsk and Lugansk regions ».

The authorities of the DNI and the LC, declaring of separate elections, pointed out that Kiev “de facto released from the Minsk agreement”, agreed with the republics of the amendments to the Constitution of Ukraine, concerning the “special status” DNI and LC. Poroshenko has repeatedly stressed that the Constitution “there can be no special status for the Donetsk and Lugansk,” and it is only a “special order of the local self-government” in some regions of Donetsk and Lugansk regions.