The territorial election Commission acknowledged the ballots in the local elections in Krasnoarmeysk, Donetsk region null and void, the election day has not started, said head of the Donetsk regional organization of the Department of voters of Ukraine Serhiy Kravchenko.

according to his statement, in Krasnoarmiisk "at night, the court decided" about the fact that ballot papers cannot be printed by a commercial printer, because of what the Territorial election Commission decided "to recognize these ballots null and void. ""in fact, at all stages of the electoral process were admitted procedural mistakes," - said Kravchenko in broadcast television channel.

Local elections are held in Ukraine on Sunday on the new electoral law. Regional, city and district councils will be elected under the proportional system with the so-called open lists, and the deputies of village councils under majority system of relative majority. The results must be determined before November 4 and made public for five days, and in the case of the 2nd round of elections of the mayor in the big cities - not later than November 20.

in elections are not available to take blocks of political parties, the electoral threshold for parties is raised from 3% to 5%. The election will turnout. Experts predict that on current elections it will be rather high at over 70%. Local elections are not held in a number of settlements of Donetsk and Lugansk regions.

according to the results of most opinion polls, the party "Block of Petro Poroshenko" Solidarity ", "Batkivshchyna" former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and "Self-help" lead the chart of electoral preferences. The overwhelming number of voters came to the polls in the East of the country experts will pornosivut of the party " Opposition Bloc ".

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