The party completing nomination of candidates for elections to the Parliament

The deadline set by the Central election Commission (CEC) of Ukraine for the nomination of candidates for people's deputies from political parties in parliamentary elections, ends on Monday, However, the independents have another 10 days to declare its intention to participate in the electoral race.

Early parliamentary elections in Ukraine will be held on October 26, the registration of candidates for deputies ends on 30 September. In the Parliament will be elected 438 deputies instead of 450 provided by law. Crimea and Sevastopol, on the square which are 12 majoritarian districts, after the referendum joined Russia and now not nominate their candidates.

the MPs will be elected by a mixed system: fifty percent of the deputies by party list, the second fifty percent in the majority districts. In the elections prohibited the participation of blocs of political parties, the threshold is 5%.

in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions, provided for the development of eleven and 21 polling stations, respectively. However, until now it is not clear how many of them will work, because part of the territory of these regions is located in an area of military conflict between the Ukrainian security forces and militias of Donbass.

According to the law, the elections in the district will be deemed valid if they will be if one of the polling stations, no matter how many people took part in them. At the same time, voters who had to leave the combat zone, will be able to Participate in elections in other regions of Ukraine, But to vote they will be only for candidates on party lists. According to various sources, such voters may comprise up to 200 thousand people.

The current election race has a great number of new political projects. Intention to participate in the elections already told the party " Block Poroshenko ", " popular front ", the leaders of which are the Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk and Parliament speaker Oleksandr Turchynov, " Party development of Ukraine "and " Radical Party " headed by Oleg Lyashko, known for his outrageous antics. To participate in the race have plans and classical political parties, such as " Fatherland ", led by Yulia Tymoshenko, the Communist Party of Ukraine, " STRIKE ", " Strong Ukraine " and " Freedom ". The party of regions, which won parliamentary elections 2012, from participation in the election would not.


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