The head of the European Parliament's election observation mission, Pawel Kowal, has said that the mission will draw its conclusions on the lawfulness of the parliamentary elections in Ukraine only after the completion of the electoral process.

At the same time, Kowal said he intends to inform all participants in the election campaign about existing "doubts."

During a seminar on the parliamentary elections in Ukraine on Thursday as part of a sitting of the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs, he said that he recently visited Ukraine with Michael Gahler, the vice president of the mission, and met with many political leaders, officials and representatives of the Central Election Commission.

"We have prepared for our main mission very well. We will meet with all political leaders before the elections and inform them about our doubts in written form. We are not going to draw conclusions right now, we'll do this only when we have an opportunity to observe the whole election process. I would like to call on everyone to use the time before the elections to monitor the process, with the help of all possible means," Kowal said.

The MEP added that the political situation would affect the elections.

A number of the MEPs present at the seminar also expressed concern about the upcoming parliamentary elections in Ukraine.

"The situation in the media and the election campaign significantly lacks political pluralism on television, and the situation with the freedom of the media has drastically changed," Gahler said.

The participants of the seminar often mentioned the situation with the TVi Channel. The director of the TV channel, Mykola Kniazhytsky, was also present at the seminar.

MEP Adrian Severin said that the EP "should issue an early warning in order to improve the situation in the remaining time."

"We should be fair and unbiased," he said.

At the same time, MEP Jacek Saryusz-Wolski in a remark described the parliamentary elections as "unfair."