Image copyright AP On Sunday, Ukraine held elections to local authorities, in which elected mayors of 358 cities of regional and district level, as well as deputies of the regional and district councils.
By the middle of the day, according to the operational headquarters of MIA of Ukraine, has received 470 reports of violations during the electoral process, in particular, checked 54 fact of bribing voters. Also, the Committee of Voters of Ukraine recorded in the area in the Nikolayev included on the voting booth camera.
Trying to issue ballots without a passport – the most common violation of the election, said the civil network “Support” . Such a violation observers noted at every seventh section.
Polling stations in Mariupol and Red Army cmogli not start due to a lack of ballots. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, across the country have not opened 237 sites: 235 in Mariupol and Red Army, two in Sumy.
Interior Ministry intends to initiate an investigation against members of Mariupol gorizbirkoma on suspicion of disrupting the electoral process.
However, in the Donets Basin in all cities except Mariupol and Red Army, elections are held peacefully. Told BBC BBC said the head of the Donetsk regional organization of the Committee of Voters of Ukraine (CVU), Sergei Tkachenko.
According to him, in Mariupol and Red Army sites have not started the work because of the lack of ballots: Mariupol territorial Election Commissions (TECs) refused to accept the ballots printed in a printing house “Azov worker” and Krasnoarmeysk Court declared the illegitimacy of printing papers.
“The main difference between these local elections in the Donbas from 2010 – the real and the high level of competition. where such did not exist “, – said Sergey Tkachenko.
Elections not carried out in parts of Donetsk and Lugansk regions, which control the breakaway DNI and LC, as well as in 91 the village of Donetsk and 31 – Lugansk region controlled by the Kiev area in which, as noted by the Ukrainian authorities, it is impossible to ensure the safety of voters and election officials.
The governor of the Odessa region, Mikhail Saakashvili wrote in his “Facebook ” (spelling preserved): “ For the first time voted in Ukraine for the first time went cycling to the polling station. It is important to go and vote at least for a bike, even in hiking, but a lot depends on the activity of each of you “.
The results of the election shall be determined until 4 November and made public within five days, and in the case of the second round of mayoral elections in cities – by 20 November.
Between the representatives of the DNI say that Kiev against the backdrop of elections in regions “ignores fixed in Minsk Agreement peace process”.
“Despite the beginning of the elections in Ukraine, the political and military leadership continues to ignore signed the Minsk Agreement on the challenge Heavy weapons and equipment the caliber up to 100 and more than 100 mm “, – quotes the Donetsk News Agency Eduard Eduard Basurin of the” Ministry of Defense “of the unrecognized republic.
Sunday’s local elections, which will last until 20:00 local time (18:00 GMT), pass under the new system: in cities with a population of voters over 90 thousand elections will be held in two rounds, if the first no candidate wins 50% of the vote.
The European Union previously allocated 3.5 million euros to Kiev for the local elections.
The US Ambassador to Ukraine Jeffrey Payette expects that after the election reform in Ukraine will accelerate. “I and my colleagues from the” Big Seven “inspired by what we heard from the president of Poroshenko on Friday night. Namely, that after the elections he, along with the parties of the coalition will accelerate the implementation of reforms”, – said the American ambassador after a visit to one of the polling areas.
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