| Adopted law on local elections excludes holding of Kyiv mayoral vote |
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| Saturday, 10 July 2010 18:27 |
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The law on local elections (No 6601) adopted in its final reading today schedules local elections in Ukraine for October 31 2010, except for elections of the mayor of Kyiv and head of the city council as well as the head of Ternopil city council. A total of 259 out of 285 MPs registered in Parliament voted in favor of the law.
Also, 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 the 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.
The new law prohibits political parties from participating in the elections if their branches were formed less than 365 days before Election Day. The election campaign will begin no later than 60 days before polling day. The provision stipulating that local elections can be held simultaneously with parliamentary and presidential elections was withdrawn from the final text of the doc
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