The mayors of Kharkiv and Lviv Gennady Kernes and Andriy Sadovyy will participate in local elections that will be held in Ukraine on October 25, passes on Wednesday Agency.

according to the Agency, Kernes elected in the form of a candidate From the party of "Revival" on a post of the mayor of Kharkiv, and head up the list of political forces in the elections to the city Council. The proper solution approved by delegates at the XI extraordinary conference of Kharkiv city organization of the party.

From the party "unity of" Self-help " on a post of the head of the Kyiv city Council will be registered as a candidate by the head of the faction in the Moscow Council, the restaurant owner Sergey Gusovsky, for the post of the head of the Lviv city Council - Garden.

before the Mayor of Kiev, Vitali Klitschko was nominated for the position of head of the city From the party "Block of Petro Poroshenko "Solidarity" (PPB). According to the Ukrainian media, the position of the mayor of Odessa From BPP nominated former Mayor of this town Eduard Gurvits. For the position of head of Dnipropetrovsk nominated ex-Governor of the region and the people's Deputy From the Opposition bloc Oleksandr Vilkul, former Deputy Governor of the region and the people's Deputy Boris Filatov, the leader of the "Crisis of power" MS Krasnov, the current Acting mayor Galina Pin and the candidate From the PPB Maxim Kuryachaya. From Zaporizhia nominated the current Mayor Alexander Sin.

According to the schedule, the CEC of Ukraine will adopt an opinion on candidates ' registration before October 1.

The first Parliament of Ukraine adopted the 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%.

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