The speaker: the law on local elections not coordinated, the Happy meeting cancelled

The head of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Volodymyr Groisman explained that the Parliament had abolished the extraordinary meeting scheduled for 9 July, as the draft law on local elections, Even to the end is not agreed.

"Even Today, the question is the key law - the law on local elections. And Today in 10 hours I collected the faction leaders And experts of the factions, And we discussed the question of what should be a new system of local elections, after a couple of hours moderated this job 1st Deputy head of the Verkhovna Rada Andriy Parubiy, " - said Groisman at the Ukrainian conversation Wednesday night.

According to his statement, on Thursday there will be another meeting to iron out the outstanding issues." That's currently the main objective is that the next plenary week was filled with a position of making quality laws, " added the speaker.

He also said that the faction of the coalition agreed on the prohibition of participation in local electoral blocks of political parties." Today we discussed the challenges of blocks to be or not. Today agreed that electoral blocs at the local level will not " - said Groisman.

in June, the Ukrainian Parliament adopted in the first reading the draft law on local elections, which stipulates that regional, city And district councils will be elected by a proportional system with open lists. The document must undergo a second reading.

According to the Ukrainian Constitution, elections to the local self-government bodies are obliged to take place on 25 October of the current year. Today the law of Ukraine written rule about mixed proportional-majoritarian system of elections to local councils on the basis of closed party lists.

Ukrainian politicians before criticized her for the fact that such a system creates fertile ground for bribery of voters, political bribery, and administrative resources.


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