Ukrainian lawmakers adopted in the second reading the law on local elections, providing for the October 25 local elections to exclude Donetsk and Luhansk regions
The law provides for the elections of members of village councils under the current majoritarian system with relative majority, and members of regional, district, city and city district councils under the proportional electoral system with the preferences.
The bill was voted for by 257 MPs, an Ukrinform correspondent reports.
On October 25, there will not be held the local elections of deputies of the Verkhovna Rada of Crimea; deputies of the Sevastopol City Council; deputies of district, city, town, and village councils; city, settlement and village heads in Crimea; as well as deputies of regional councils in individual districts and city districts; of city, town, village, and city councils; town and village heads and councils of the united communities in Donetsk and Luhansk regions, according to the final and transitional provisions of the adopted document, because of the temporary occupation [of part of the Ukrainian territory], the armed aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine and the impossibility of enforcing the OSCE election standards.
The list of administrative units, where regular local elections scheduled for 25 October will not be held, shall be determined by the Verkhovna Rada.
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