The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine did not support the holding of elections in Mariupol on November 15, but found 233 votes in favor of holding elections on November 29.
The Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada, Groisman, needed to carry out several attempts at the so-called "signal" vote. As the deputy of the Radical Party faction said during the debate, if elections are held in Mariupol, Ukraine will lose one more city.
Ukrainians live in Mariupol, said Volodymyr Groisman, so do not hold elections with the wording that suddenly the wrong people will be elected in a non-European way.
How can we take away from people their constitutional right to vote? The speaker asked.
Serhiy Taruta's draft law on rerun elections in Mariupol on November 15 won 113 votes during a signal vote. Then the speaker introduced an amendment to hold elections on November 29.
The political game that is currently underway leads to the loss of the state's rating, said Sergei Matvienkov, a deputy of the bloc's OP.
Let us remind you that the elections in Mariupol on October 25 were thwarted by members of the territorial election commission, who refused to receive the ballots printed in the printing house of Priazovsky Rabochy.
Verkhovna Rada deputies allowed local elections to be held in Mariupol on November 29

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Azovpromstal® 10 November 2015 г. 19:15 |