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Ukrainian parliament passes European integration bill on election legislation

Verkhovna Rada also intended to consider on Thursday in the second reading a bill on the prosecutor’s office and four bills on the issue of convicted ex-Prime Minister Yulia Timoshenko

KIEV, November 21. /ITAR-TASS/. The Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada (parliament) on Thursday has passed a European integration bill on the election legislation. A total of 365 lawmakers voted for this document. The bill was passed without discussion.

The bill’s author, MP Dmitry Shpenov representing the Party of Regions said that the bill’s new version provided, among other things, for the registration of the majority candidates exclusively by the Central Election Commission (CEC). It is also prohibited to change the borders of constituencies during the election process, which was allowed at previous elections. “The CEC, no later than 175 days from the voting day shall publish on its official website a list of single-mandate constituencies, specifying their numbers, as well as the addresses of the premises of the related election commissions,” Shpenov said. “The procedure of “invalidation” of vote at polling stations is preserved in the current version of the bill,” he noted.