Cherkasy Oblast: DEC 194 Can't Take Ready Protocols to the CEC

Yurii Khorunzhyi

The situation at the district election commission 194, which is in Cherkasy, hasn't run its course yet. Let us remind that back on 3 November, two protocols were signed and stamped, and the voting results were officially announced. However, final documents haven't been delivered to the Central Election Commission yet as, firstly, as we have reported earlier, Head of the DEC was hospitalised, and only she knows the secret password, which is required to fill out the final documents.   Secondly, so far the meetings have been held by the new Chairman Vasyl Mykolenko — member of the DEC of the Ukrainian People's Party. As Head of the DEC shall take documents to the CEC, he should be legitimised in the Central Election Commission, To do this, the district commission submitted a statement to the CEC, and is awaiting a reply.

In addition, People's Deputy Lesia Orobets appealed to the Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine regarding the violation of the election law by the Head of DEC No.194 Olha Kozko who terminated determination of final voting results in the district.

Let us remind that, according to the CEC website, back on 1 November, at DEC No.194 results of already 100% stations were processed but there was a desperate struggle between Mykola Bulatestkyi and a self-nominated candidate Valentyna Zhukovska, who, according to the information of the CEC website, has 12,373 votes less.

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