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Less than half of polling stations in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions have received voter lists, said Andriy Mahera, the deputy head of the Ukrainian Central Election Commission.

“The big problem there (in the Donetsk and Luhansk region) is not the
formation of local election commissions but the delivery of the lists,”
he told a press conference in Kyiv on Thursday.

The number of the voter lists delivered to the local election commission in these regions has yet to be confirmed, he said.

“Yesterday we could say that the polling stations, both in the
Donetsk and Luhansk regions, which have received the voters’ lists,
accounted for less than half, less than 50 per cent,” Mahera said.

The CEC hopes this number will increase, Mahera said.

A total of 34 election commissions have been formed in the two regions: 22 in Donetsk and 12 in Luhansk, he recalled.

Both the Donetsk and Luhansk regions now have most of the election commissions they require, the CEC deputy chief said.