Deputy head of Ukraine's Batkivschyna party Oleksandr Turchynov has accused the Central Election Commission (CEC) of following orders from presidential administration as it refuses to recognize the election outcome in those single-seat constituencies where the opposition won.
“Regrettably, the CEC remains controlled by the presidential administration and is preparing unlawful decisions, including on invalidating the election results in those constituencies where opposition representatives won,” he told reporters in Kyiv on Monday.
Under the law, voting results cannot be invalidated in any individual election district, but “CEC and the judiciary are trying to operate outside the Constitution, outside the election legislation,” Turchynov said. “Therefore, we cannot recognize such election results,” he added.
Earlier, the CEC, in a resolution passed on Monday, acknowledged the impossibility of determining reliable election results in five first-past-the-post constituencies – Nos. 94, 132, 194, 197, 223 – and ruled that a repeat vote is necessary.
