Source: Kyiv confirmed the need for a separate law for the elections in Donbass

Authorized Kiev in the process held on Wednesday videoconferencing confirmed that the local elections in Donbas must be regulated by a separate legislative act, said a source close to the negotiations.
"The Ukrainian side agreed that the local elections in Donbas must be regulated by a separate special legislative act, And not the legislative act of Ukraine On local elections, which was adopted in July of the current year ", - He told " Lugansk information center ".
"according to one version, the next meeting of the subgroup, similarly, in the videoconference will be held on August 19. There is expected to consider the drafting envoy of the Ukrainian side in the subgroup Immortal Novel article 10 of the law on the special status. 3 versions of this article Authorized LNR and DND submitted for review and earlier, " said the source. He also said that the main topics on the agenda of the meeting was to discuss "the enactment of the law" on special order of local government in certain districts of Luhansk and Donetsk regions, the electoral act and the amendments to the Constitution of Ukraine ". August 7, Chapter proclaimed DND Alexander Zakharchenko said that the Donetsk people's Republic has determined the final date of the local elections, they will be held on October 18. In DND stated that the elections in the Donetsk and Luhansk people's republics will be held legally agreed upon with the authorized DND and LNR, but such approval will not be contrary to the law On elections in Ukraine. The head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko has said that the elections organized by the authorities DND and LNR, will have devastating consequences for the Minsk process and will lead to further aggravation of the situation in the Donbass. August 6, Poroshenko has signed the law " On local elections ". But the day before the speaker of the Verkhovna Rada Volodymyr Groysman said that the Ukrainian leadership is not going to hold local elections in the Donbas region and give the region a special status. For its part, the head of delegation of the DND on the negotiations Denis Putilin said that Poroshenko signed the law On local elections violates the Minsk agreement and has nothing to Donetsk and Lugansk national republics.


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