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The initiative of the people’s deputy of “Servant of the people” Tatyana Grishchenko to postpone the second round of local elections in Ukraine does not coincide with the position of the party, said the political forces.
The Servant of the People parliamentary faction will not initiate the postponement of the second round of local elections in Ukraine. The party said in a statement posted on its Facebook page on October 21.
“The aforementioned initiative is the personal opinion of an individual deputy and does not coincide with the position of the Servant of the People party. In addition, the electoral process is on the finish line, so such changes in it are impossible,” the party said .
Political force called to create all the conditions for the fulfillment of the anti-epidemic measures during the vote.
Servant of the People’s People’s Deputy Tatyana Grishchenko announced on October 21 that she had registered a draft resolution of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, which proposes to cancel the second ballot in local elections in Ukraine and keep them after the quarantine was canceled. due to COVID-19 coronavirus infection.
According to the text of project number 4234, the popular deputy proposes to add Resolution of the Verkhovna Rada of July 15, 2020 №795-IX “On the appointment of the next local elections in 2020” paragraph 5¹: “Repeated voting in the elections of deputies of the village, settlement, city council (territorial community with the number of voters up to 10 thousand), village, settlement, the mayor of the city is not appointed and is not carried out during the period quarantine established to prevent the spread of respiratory illness COVID-19 caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 “. According to the explanatory note, the author considers that the main objective of the project is “to avoid an undue burden on the Ukrainian medical system”.
The Voters Committee of Ukraine said that if the second round of elections is canceled, a number of settlements will remain without a legitimate government.
Local elections in Ukraine are scheduled for October 25. Elections will be held throughout Ukraine, except in Russian-occupied Crimea and certain areas of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions. The electoral campaign began on September 5. Repeated voting, according to current legislation, is carried out if two or more candidates for city council deputies have the highest number and at the same time the same number of votes, as well as in cities with a number of voters of 75 thousand or more, where none of the candidates obtained more than half of the votes they accepted. participation in voting.
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