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Ukrainian Prime Minister and Regions Party leader Mykola Azarov has said that the criticism by the opposition of certain election procedures is improper, as it also voted for the law on parliamentary elections. 

“The opposition and the constitutional majority adopted such a law. We worked on it for a long time, and we met the opposition halfway,” he said at a meeting with Head of the OSCE/ODIHR Election Observation Mission to the Parliamentary Elections in Ukraine Audrey Glover in Kyiv on Monday.

Azarov said that it was the opposition that insisted that electoral commissions be formed on the basis of a draw.

“We warned the opposition that it would lead to a complex procedure for the formation of electoral commissions. We proposed that commissions be equally represented by five parliamentary parties from the opposition and the majority, but they said it was undemocratic,” he said.

Azarov said that the Ukrainian opposition was criticizing precisely this point during meetings with elections observers, without saying how this situation occurred.