| Parliament adopts law on local elections in final reading |
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| Saturday, 10 July 2010 19:21 |
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The Ukrainian Parliament today adopted the law on the electoral system to be used at local elections (No 6601) in its final reading at its evening plenary sitting. A total of 259 MPs voted in favor of the law "On the election of deputies to the Supreme Council of Crimea, local councils as well as village, town and city heads".
The bill was tabled by the pro-presidential Party of Regions faction. It proposes a mixed system of proportional voting and first-past-the-post voting without the participation of blocs consisting of political parties. According to the law, the elections of members of the Crimean Parliament, regional, district and city councils as well as district councils in cities will be held on the basis of a mixed electoral system (proportional and first-past-the-post). Members of village councils will be elected on the basis of the first- past-the-post system. However, MPs of the opposition Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc and Our Ukraine People's Self-Defence Bloc were critical of the bill's provisions and called it undemocratic. MPs spent several hours yesterday and most of today considering over 1,300 amendments in total.
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