The member of the house of lords of the British Parliament Richard Balfe, who came to Ukraine from the mission to monitor local elections, robbed in the airport of Dnipropetrovsk, informs the Ukrainian service.

before the Central election Commission of Ukraine reported about the fact that finished the registration of international official observers at local elections, only the list included more than 1, 5 thousand people.

"my own baggage I passed in the airport of Kiev. After receiving it in the Dnepropetrovsk airport, found that the stolen money and goods. This does not happen in European countries, where everything is organized. If this happened in the UK, the blame would be immediately fired, and so would most European countries, " said Balfe bi-Bi-si Ukraine.

along with this, in the main unit of MIA of Ukraine in Dnipropetrovsk region stated that according to the facts police initiated a case under the criminal code, investigation is underway.

Local elections in Ukraine are obliged to pass on October 25. The Parliament first adopted a law defining the rules of their conduct. Now regional, city and district councils will be elected under the proportional system with the so-called open lists, and elections of deputies of village and settlement councils - the majority system of relative majority. In elections are not available to take blocks of political parties, the electoral threshold for parties is raised from 3% to 5%.

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