Party of Regions MP Oleksandr Yefremov has said that the opposition wants to hold parliamentary elections in five troubled districts this autumn in order to prevent the signing of the Association Agreement with the EU, the press service of the Party of Regions has reported.
“They [the opposition] want to hold the elections on October 25.
They’re bringing the situation to the point of absurdity to arrange some
sort of provocations before the summit in Vilnius so that everyone
says: ‘How can the association agreement, including the creation of a
free trade area, be signed with such a country?'” he said.
Yefremov said the decision on elections in the troubled districts
complies with the legislation, but UDAR faction leader Vitali Klitschko
expressed his desire to hold the elections on October 25.
“I asked them what they were guided by. They want it to be so. Then
another proposal was made – let’s hold the elections on September 22 or
29. The supreme legislative body of the state cannot work like this!
Either we work according to the law, or we work according to some
notions, proposals… As a result, there is no order,” he said.
