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30 of October, 18:01

The CEC of Ukraine makes a promise to do everything to enable elections in Pavlograd
The Central election Commission of Ukraine will make all efforts to hold a second round of elections in Pavlograd the Dnepropetrovsk area, despite its previous message that the re-vote the inhabitants of the city can not hold, said on the last working day of the week the head of the CEC Mikhail stations.

"No one will be able to reverse the decision of the territorial election Commission, no one will be able to prevent the realization of the electoral rights of the residents of Pavlograd, in the framework of repeated voting on elections of the mayor. I reiterate, the Central electoral Commission with his own hand, at the time of its competence will make every effort to re-count the votes in the town of Pavlograd was held. Reasons to doubt the possibility of such a vote, At this point of time does not happen " - said ohendovsky at a press conference.

Local elections in Ukraine took place on 25 October. In small towns with population over 90 thousand people, the mayor was elected by a simple majority of votes, and in the large cities must be assigned the second round, if none of the candidates could gain more than 50% of the vote. According to media reports, before the start of the election race in Pavlograd there were 90, 3 thousand voters, but on election day in voting lists were made 89, 8 thousand people. The Commission was told that the second round in Pavlograd is not needed, since the mayor was elected by no more than 90 thousand people.

the head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko have said before, that outraged by the situation prevailing in Pavlograd and hoped that the court will determine whether the second round on elections of the mayor. Later the Kyiv appeal administrative court declared unlawful an explanation of the Central election Commission, causing the cancellation of elections in Pavlograd.

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