Chairman of the Central Election Commission Volodymyr Shapoval said there is every reason to suspect that there were certain violations in individual election constituencies, but the CEC seeks to establish the exact returns of the elections by all legitimate means.
“The commission seeks to establish the election results by all
legitimate means. But there are grounds to suspect certain violations in
troubled districts. This is what impedes us … There is a guarantee
concerning the observance of the law by the CEC in this process. The
commission will have protocols not only from district election
commissions and but those from precinct election commissions, and each
of them will be thoroughly checked,” Shapoval said on Friday at a
meeting with the head of a long-term election observation mission of
OSCE/ODIHR, Audrey Glover, the press service of the Central Election
Commission reported.
The officials discussed the situation around district election
commissions number 14, 132, 197 and 223. First of all they discussed the
tabulation process and determining the election results in
single-member constituencies.
Glover asked why the official Web site of the CEC had changed the
results of the vote on some of these districts, to which the head of the
Central Election Commission said that preliminary information regarding
the vote count in districts, comes to the CEC through the Vybory
(Election) electronic system is from district commissions.
“This Web site provides only the information which is supplied by
relevant district election commissions. These facts raise many
questions, and I am not sure that this is a simple error,” Shapoval
said.
According to the CEC press service, Glover said: “We believe in the
objectivity of the Central Election Commission. And we know that you are
making a great effort to ensure the transparency of the electoral
process.”
At the end of the conversation she said that the final report of the
OSCE/ODIHR observation mission about the parliamentary elections in
Ukraine would be released in two months.
In turn, the CEC chairman said he had no doubt as to the objectivity
of the report, and expressed the hope that Ukraine would implement the
recommendations of the OSCE.
