Police opened a case under the criminal code in connection with the loss of the press at a polling station in the Frunzensky district of Kharkiv, said on Sunday the press service of the Ministry of internal Affairs of Ukraine in Kharkiv region.

first one polling station in Kharkov was unable to open on time because of the disappearance of the seal of the election Commission. Later on the area was brought to the duplicate printing, and the site began a process work in a regular mode.

"Kharkiv police opened a criminal case on the fact of the disappearance of print at the polling station. Now the police establish all the circumstances of the incident and ask witnesses to the event ", - reported in the report of the Ministry of interior.

according to authorities, on Sunday, 08. Fifteen (09. 10 GMT) with the statement in militia I addressed the members of public organization "OPORA" and said that at some polling station, the head of the electoral Commission lost the seal.

The police brought the case under paragraph " stealing, assignment, extortion of documents, stamps, seals, taking them by fraud or malpractice or injury."

Local elections are held in Ukraine on Sunday on the new electoral law. Regional, city and district councils will be elected under the proportional system with open lists, and elections of deputies of village and settlement councils - the majority system of relative majority. The results must be determined before November 4 and made public for five days, and in the case of the 2nd round of elections of the mayor in the big cities - not later than November 20.

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