The Petro Poroshenko Bloc political party has suggested that local elections in the city of Mariupol, Donetsk, should be rescheduled to Nov. 15, the same day when the second round of the mayoral election will be held in the city.
The leader of Petro Poroshenko Bloc Yuriy Lutsenko told journalists after a meeting of the coalition council that a bill had been prepared by MP Ruslan Kniazevych that foresees local elections in the city being rescheduled to Nov. 15.
“However, the [coalition] factions took time out to process the documents containing juristic and political opinion,” he said in Kyiv on Monday.
However, Lutsenko stressed that local elections in Mariupol will be held “because we foresee the necessity of supplying voting papers, and rougher control of Kyiv [over the election], and I have no doubt that will be effective.”
He stressed that the elections in Mariupol did not take place due to the incompetence of the territorial election commission.
“This is the territorial election commission, which didn’t take a decision to make up the protocol on the situation at the typography,” he said, adding that similar problems occurred in Zakarpattia, Zaporizhia and Ternopil, but voting ballots were reprinted in these areas after the Central Election Commission gave the green light.
