The expert group developed a draft law on local elections in Ukraine, which has elections with open lists, the Verkhovna Rada is planning to consider it at the next meeting, said Tuesday the Speaker of the Ukrainian Parliament Volodymyr Groysman.

According to the Ukrainian Constitution, elections to the local self-government bodies are obliged to pass at the end of October of the current year. However, the Parliament has until now not approved the rules of their conduct. On the initiative of the authorities was created by a group of experts together with the MPs has developed a correlated document.

"The result of the work of the team of specialists and people's deputies was the time of the draft law on local elections at the end of the last group meeting (Tuesday) will be referred to the relevant Committee of the Parliament in order to prepare for the first reading and consideration in Parliament," - said Groisman at a press conference. According to him, the draft law on local elections has the ability to be considered at the upcoming plenary week from 2nd to 5th June.

The Parliament speaker added That correlated the draft law meets the signed coalition agreement, for example, it is planned to implement elections with open lists." in terms of initiatives, there is a proposal to provide the threshold for parties at the level of 5%, if you take part blocks at the level of 7% ", - said the Speaker. He added That the possibility of a quantitative reduction of the regional and local councils, But the final decision on the matter is still pending.

Groisman also said That the draft law defines the rules of the elections throughout the territory of Ukraine." As regards the territory, the narrative goes on all territory of Ukraine

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