A working Group on Donbass Local Elections Got Created in Rada

There are no legislative initiatives on this issue yet. Moreover, according to the speaker Razumkov, a change in laws in the remaining term before the elections could jeopardize elections throughout the country. The profile committee of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine considered Leonid Kravchuk’s appeal about the possibility of changing the legislation in order to organize voting in the territory controlled by Ukraine in the east of the country. A working group has been created, but there are no legislative initiatives on this issue yet. Speaker of the parliament Dmytro Razumkov said this to journalists, as telegram channel PavlovskyNews informed. He noted that according to Ukrainian legislation, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine must announce the elections no later than 90 days before they start, expressing concern that changes in laws in the remaining short term could threaten the will expression organizing throughout the country. Recall, earlier, the ex-president of Ukraine, and now a member of the negotiating group on Donbass, Leonid Kravchuk, said that Russia had threatened to block all processes in Donbass if Ukraine refuses to hold elections in eastern Ukraine. In early August, the Central Election Commission decided not to hold local elections in the territories of Donetsk and Luhansk regions controlled by Ukraine. Local elections in Ukraine are scheduled for October 25, 2020.