Registration of candidates for the local elections in the breakaway Donetsk people's Republic launched Today in Donetsk, told Last news Commissioner of the CEC DND.

"Today is the 1st day of reception of documents. We can say that the Registration of candidates running for the position of heads of cities and regions, kicked off, " said the head of the Department.

He also added that the point of reception of documents is placed in the Donetsk and elected the head of the 14 cities and three districts.

Local elections in the DNR are required to complete 18 October. The head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko have said before, 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 Ukrainian Government has appointed elections to Local authorities on 25 October. The authorities DND and LNR many times stated about the conduct of local elections regardless of the wishes of Kiev.

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