KHERSON - Over 3,500 forced refugees from Crimea and Sevastopol changed their polling stations from the temporary occupied territory to mainland Ukraine, so that now they can exercise their right and vote at the early parliamentary elections, according to the permanent mission of Ukrainian president in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea.
“Ukraine has fully ensured the protection and realization of rights for voting at the elections and free expression of will of forced refugees. In turn, by October 20, Crimean citizens underwent all the necessary procedures to change their polling stations. Now they will decide their future at the early elections to Verkhovna Rada on the territory of free Ukraine,” the mission’s Web site reported on Oct. 22.
As reported, on May 16, 2014, Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Oleksandr Turchynov signed a decree on a temporary relocation of the permanent mission of Ukrainian president in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea to Kherson. The decree was signed to restore mission’s work under the conditions of “temporary occupation of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea.”
On May 22, Turchynov appointed Natalia Popovych to be a Permanent Delegate of the President of Ukraine to Crimea. Previously, Popovych led the Yalta Employment Center.
