CIS-EMO: Election commissions formed in line with law, but still suffer problems
Kyiv, October 19 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Representatives of the CIS Election Monitoring Organization (CIS-EMO) have recognized that the presence of members of lesser-known parties in the composition of election commissions is a problem, but complaints can be sent only to the authors of the law on parliamentary elections.
"We cannot disagree here that some kind of trick is being played. But against whom can these claims be made? The law was jointly adopted by the major political forces. Representatives of the parties that have currently become the victims of this trick should have thought a little bit about the consequences when they jointly adopted this law," the head of the CIS-EMO mission, Alexei Kochetkov, said at a roundtable meeting at Interfax-Ukraine on Thursday.
A mission representative, Dmitry Yefimov, in turn, said that such tricks were being used by an "unknown third force."
"Unfortunately, there is no evidence that these people belong to the Regions Party," he said.
In response to a remark by a Batkivschyna representative that such evidence exists, Yefimov said: "It exists, but it's conditional."
According to the observer, only investigators could establish the true offenders in this case.
Yefimov also noted that such a phenomenon in the elections as the bribery of voters could not be considered a systemic violation, because it does not influence the choice of voters.
As reported, representatives of the Svoboda and UDAR parties were not included in any of the district election commissions.
Kyiv's Administrative Court of Appeals rejected an appeal lodged by Svoboda to invalidate the Central Election Commission's decision on the formation of district election commissions.