The draft law on local elections in Ukraine has the opportunity to be considered by the Verkhovna Rada this week, said Tuesday the speaker of the Ukrainian Parliament Volodymyr Groysman.

According to the Constitution of Ukraine, elections to local self-government bodies are obliged to take place on 25 October of the current year, but Glad to now have not adopted the rules of their conduct. On the initiative of the authorities was created by a group of experts together with the MPs has developed a correlated document. In General, in the Parliament At the moment time introduced 3 of the draft law on local elections. One of them was proposed by a group of 18 people's deputies from " Block Petro Poroshenko. It provides for the holding of local elections with open lists and a decrease, Usually 30% of the number of deputies in local councils.

"Today (Tuesday) ordered the Committee on legal policy and justice as quickly as possible to review all bills in respect of local elections. This week we have to come to a joint decision on the issue and putting it to the vote count in the session hall, " wrote Groysman on Facebook.

review the speaker, the bills have the opportunity to be considered in the first reading at the meeting of Parliament on Thursday.

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