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  Ukraine's Constitutional Court has not yet opened the proceedings into a query by 54 MPs concerning the procedure for the holding of repeat parliamentary elections in five single-seat constituencies, where the Central Election Commission was not able to establish the results of the past October 28 2012 parliamentary elections.

As of Friday, January 11, the query by Ukrainian lawmakers was still being studied by the office of the Constitutional Court, Interfax-Ukraine learned at the court’s press service.

As reported, on December 29, 2012, the Constitutional Court of Ukraine received a query from 54 MPs regarding the official interpretation of a number of provisions of the law on election of people’s deputies of Ukraine concerning the procedures for appointing rerun elections.

In the parliamentary elections on October 28, the Central Election Commission recognized the impossibility of establishing the election results in five single-seat districts – Nos. 94 (Obukhiv, Kyiv region), 132 (Pervomaisk, Mykolaiv region), 194 and 197 (Cherkasy region) and 223 (Kyiv, Shevchenkivsky district).

The Verkhovna Rada proposed that the CEC call repeat elections in these districts. However, the CEC said that this problem should be resolved legislatively, because the law does not envisage such grounds for the holding of repeat elections as the impossibility of establishing the election results.