Violations were noticed in the district, where son-in-law of Viktor Pylypyshyn runs for the Kyiv city council

Secretary of PEC #801015, election district #223 started to fill in the protocol on the vote count thus violating the law.

Namely, he collected signatures of the members of PEC under an empty protocol sheet. 

After a remark made by the observer of the Civil Network OPORA, the secretary claimed that the protocol has no seal and therefore it should not be considered as a violation. 

The secretary refused to present this partially filled in form to the police officer and said that is does not exist.

It is known that in the district where this PEC is situated Kostiantyn Yalovyi, the son-in-law of an infamous former head of Rayon state administration, who at the moment is MP of Ukraine Viktor Pylypyshyn, runs for the Kyiv city council.

He is know in the district because of the activity of the "charity foundation" during the election campaign.

Now the police officer is present at the polling station, what is a violation of the election process as well.

The observer of the Civil Network OPORA claims the pressure he experiences on behalf of the policement and the secretary of the comission.

Civic monitoring conducted by OPORA - is a type of network activity, aimed at impartial assessment of the preparation and conduct of elections, as well as preventing electoral violations through comprehensive civic action. Since March, OPORA conducts a wide observation campaign during snap Presidential election, interim Parliamentary elections (district #83), and special local elections.The organization cooperates with 175 long-term observers, who are watching the course of election campaign in all Ukrainian regions. On the Election Day on May 25, 3,000 activists will join them to conduct the parallel vote tabulation, based on statistical sample.