The European Parliament is planning to send their representatives to Ukraine to monitor the local elections which will be held on 25 October, said the head of the EU delegation in Ukraine Jan Tombinski. "Yes, it's not literally a common practice for the European Parliament to send observers to the local elections. But taking into consideration the current situation in your country, we will go to this. And, I think it will be justified, " said Tombinski in the process of meeting with the head of the Central election Commission Mikhail Okhendovsky, informs the press service of the Agency on the first day of the week. for its part, the U.S. Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt, during the meeting expressed serious concern over the situation in the Kharkiv region, where the territorial Department of justice refuses to register a local organization of political party " Opposition bloc ", which makes it impossible for the commissioners to participate in local elections. The head of the CEC supported this concern, noting that the resolution of this issue is in the competence of Executive bodies, for example the Ministry of justice of Ukraine. Parliament first passed a law that defines the rules for local elections. Now the oblast, city And district councils will be elected by proportional representation with the so-called open lists, and the election of people's deputies of village And settlement councils - the majority system of relative majority. In the election will not be eligible blocks of political parties, the electoral threshold for parties increased from 3% to 5%. in the so-called transitional (additional) provisions of the act stipulates that regular elections to local government bodies in Crimea And city of Sevastopol, which in Kiev is still considered Ukrainian territory, and likewise in the Donetsk And Luhansk regions are not held.