The Odesa city territorial election Commission until not received protocols for the elections of the mayor, the currently processed data on elections to the regional Council, said the head of the Odessa territorial election commissions Evgeny Grigoriev.

according to his statement, preliminary data on the charts of the candidates for the office of mayor, the election Committee until does not have, as now processed the protocols from the election to the regional Council." Us did not come protocols to the city Council, " - said Grigoriev on the first day of the week on air of television channel.

"I was told such minor violations, which would not affect the election. And I think so, because this is an isolated violations that are in different regions. And I don't think these violations had a systematic character, " he said.

according exit poll " for fair elections ", the acting Mayor of Odessa Gennady Trukhanov wins with 53% of the votes, 2nd place - Advisor to the head of the Odessa region Mikhail Saakashvili Alexander Borovik, he 29%. According exit poll " Savik Shuster Studio ", the acting Mayor of Odessa dials 47, 6% of voters came to the polls, Borovik - 30, 8%. The current Mayor of the city considers that elections passed in one round And the 2nd will not.

Local elections were held in Ukraine on Sunday on the new electoral law. In small towns with population over 90 thousand people, the mayor was elected by a simple majority vote, and in large cities can be assigned to a second round if none of the candidates will be able to collect more than 50% of the vote.

Regional, city And district councils elected under the proportional system with open lists. The results must be determined before November 4 And made public for five days. In the elections has not had the opportunity to participate blocks of political parties, the electoral threshold for parties was raised from 3% to 5%. The election will turnout.

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