12:12 15.01.2013

Tomenko: Opposition should nominate its winners in five disputed districts

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Tomenko: Opposition should nominate its winners in five disputed districts

MP Mykola Tomenko (Batkivschyna faction) has said that opposition candidates who won parliamentary elections in five disputed districts should be single candidates from the opposition during repeat elections in these districts.

"We interpret the current appeal to the Constitutional Court by the current members of the majority as an attempt not to hold the elections," Tomenko said.

He said that in this case the Constitutional Court has no subject for consideration.

"What should the Constitutional Court consider? That physically there are no deputies there?" he said.

Tomenko noted that parliament has a committee on state building and local government, which, along with the members of the Central Election Commission, can study the matter and find a way out of this situation.

He also noted that the law on parliamentary elections, in fact, does not envisage the holding of repeat elections, but nobody envisaged such a situation, as "nobody envisaged that we will have such a senile power, and a CEC that would go in favor of the current government and declare the elections invalid."

According to Tomenko, in this case it was unnecessary to apply to the Constitutional Court, and the Verkhovna Rada and the CEC should have jointly determined the legislative grounds for holding repeat elections in six districts (as incumbent Defense Minister Pavlo Lebedev also was elected in a single-mandate constituency, and due to the fact that his deputy powers were terminated after he switched to work in the Cabinet of Ministers, elections should also be held in his constituency).

"Therefore, we will insist from February 5 [the beginning of the second session of the Verkhovna Rada] that this decision be taken," Tomenko said.

At the same time, he noted that he personally was against the repeat elections.

The Central Election Commission (CEC) earlier found it impossible to establish the election results in five single-mandate districts, and the Verkhovna Rada proposed that CEC hold repeat elections in these districts.

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