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The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine has registered two more bills on amendments to the parliamentary election law regarding repeat voting in single-member constituencies.

MP Yuriy Karmazin of the Our Ukraine-People’s Self-Defense faction registered bill No. 11419-2 on amendments of Ukraine’s law on parliamentary elections regarding repeat elections of people’s deputies in single-member constituencies, according to the parliament’s Web site.

Later, MP Volodymyr Yavorivsky of the BYT-Batkivschyna faction registered bill No. 11419-3 on amending the same law in the part of repeat voting in single-member constituencies.

The texts of the two bills and supporting documents haven’t yet been posted on the parliament’s Web site.

As reported, the Central Election Commission (CEC) of Ukraine adopted a resolution on November 5 recognizing the impossibility of announcing parliament election results in five single-seat constituencies – Nos. 94, 132, 194, 197 and 223. In addition, the commission recognized the need to hold repeat elections in these constituencies and asked parliament to take a decision on holding repeat elections in these constituencies.

On November 6, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted a resolution that proposes to recommend that the Central Election Commission (CEC) schedule repeat elections in five troubled constituencies, Nos. 94, 132, 194, 197, and 223. However, the CEC said that this matter should be settled first at legislative level, since the parliamentary election law doesn’t envisage such grounds for repeat elections as the impossibility of determining election results.

Earlier, MP Oleksandr Kozub of the Party of Regions registered in parliament a bill on repeat elections in five constituencies, while MP Yuriy Odarchenko of the BYT-Batkivschyna submitted an alternative bill suggesting holding repeat voting in those constituencies.

Odarchenko’s bill proposes holding the repeat vote in those constituencies where it is impossible to establish reliably the election results due to destruction or damage of election documents, as well as where the voting was declared invalid in more than 10% of polling stations within one single-seat constituency.