The rapporteurs of the PACE Jean-Claude Mignon and Jordi Xucla urged the Ukrainian Authorities and all stakeholders to ensure that the upcoming local elections in the country held With the participation of all political forces.

"The speakers urged the Ukrainian Authorities and all other stakeholders to ensure that the forthcoming local elections were inclusive and pluralistic in so far as it may be," according to received Fins message news according to the results of the meeting of the monitoring unit PACE. It also notes that this line " is important for the stability and further development of the country ".

in the document, MEPs called on the Authorities to exert influence on the possibility of voting for internally displaced persons. They also called for the impact that would have allowed them to vote in municipal and regional elections in their former place of residence.

The PACE Rapporteur also appealed to the chief of territorial administration of justice in the Kharkiv region with the application to register authorized " Opposition bloc ", that " They had the opportunity to participate in the upcoming local elections in Kharkiv region and in other regions of Ukraine ". MEPs drew attention to the fact that " democratic principles require that the voters had the opportunity to make his own choice from the widest possible range of political parties." They believe that the lack of ability of the party to participate in elections is contrary to such principles.

The co-rapporteurs concluded that there are plans in the near future to visit Ukraine to get acquainted on the spot with the constitutional reform, as well as with the outcome of the upcoming elections. The document does not specify when exactly the MEPs will visit Ukraine.

The Ukrainian Government has appointed elections to local authorities on 25 October. The Authorities LNR appointed local elections on November 1, but in DND They are required to take 18 October. The head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko said that Donetsk and Lugansk are obliged to dispense with the holding of local elections, and tried to convince them to immediately begin discussions on the modalities of their conduct according to the Ukrainian laws. The authorities of Donetsk and Lugansk national republics many times stated about the conduct of local elections regardless of the wishes of Kiev.

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