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Ukrainian Speaker Volodymyr Lytvyn has said that next parliamentary election would cost UAH 1.5 billion of budget funds.

"We should understand that the election is a rather expensive thing, and I think that next parliamentary election would cost at least Hr 1.5 billion," he said in an interview wit the Rada TV channel late on Friday.

He said that a clear, acceptable Election Code should be adopted, which would be supported by Ukrainian people. He said that then talks on election dates would disappear.