Recorded at the local elections in Ukraine violations will not significantly affect the result, said the Mayor of Kiev Vitali Klitschko.
according to him, the turnout of voters in the capital was 42%, RIA " Novosti "." There were over 200 messages on violations during the voting, however, any significant violations that would have resulted in annulment of results in certain areas not documented ", ? quoted expression Klitschko's press service.
in Kiev took place the Elections of the mayor and city Council. First were presented the data of exit polls, conducted by Ukrainian public organization " Department of voters of Ukraine ". They demonstrate that Klitschko reaches 40, 4% of voters came to the polls. To enable elections in one round must gain more than 50% of the vote. First Sunday in the Kyiv city Council said that the Elections in the capital of Ukraine can be considered valid, but there are 350 messages about different violations during the voting. About 20% of the polling stations in local elections in Ukraine were opened with a delay, 237 does not open at all. The elections were initiated in all regions except Mariupol and Krasnoarmeysk, where they were cancelled. As emphasized in the territorial election Commission, this is due to errors in printing ballots. In the Opposition bloc told that the responsibility for the violation of the electoral process in Mariupol and Krasnoarmeysk is himself on the President of Ukraine Petra Poroshenko. Poroshenko ordered the Parliament to amend the law To allow elections in Mariupol In the current year. Elections are not held on Kiev-controlled territories in 125 cities and towns of Donetsk region and in 146 ? Luhansk that are in the area of so-called military operation of Kiev. Human rights activists summed up numerous violations during the electoral process and predicted a small turnout. The Ministry of internal Affairs of Ukraine has already received over 340 reports related to violations during the elections. According to local authorities, turnout for local elections in all regions of Ukraine not more than 20%. The lowest turnout ? About 11% came to the polls ? notes in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.

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