The party of regions will take part in the parliamentary elections in majority constituencies

Authorized Party of regions will take part in the elections to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, But only in single (majority) districts, reported in circulation Party on Sunday.

before the former not so long ago in power the Party of regions will not participate in the parliamentary elections.

" We believe that the participation in elections of the Party, for which two years ago voted more than 5 million voters, may create a precedent usurpation of the political field South and East of Ukraine. Because of this the Party of regions gave his consent to the participation of commissioners in elections in single-member (majority) districts for the protection of democracy and the interests of the residents of not only the South-East, and Ukraine ", - reported in circulation Party on Sunday.

Political power also informs that will provide all possible help in the formation of the Ukrainian opposition (parliamentary and non-parliamentary).

" We seriously going to get to the formation of opposition inside Parliament (after passing to the Verkhovna Rada authorized opposition forces), and outside of Parliament (the creation of an opposition government), " said the statement.

the head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko August 27, signed a decree on early stopping powers Rada of the 7th convocation and purpose on October 26, extraordinary elections due to the fact that the deputies could not make a new coalition instead of broken. The procedure of registration of candidates for deputies ends on 30 September.

in the Parliament will be elected 438 deputies instead of 450 provided by law because of the Crimea and Sevastopol, which first operated 12 majoritarian districts, after the March referendum became part of the Russian Federation and do not take part in the Ukrainian elections.

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.


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