IPA CIS observers have not registered serious irregularities in presidential runoff in Ukraine

Kyiv, February 7 (Interfax-Ukraine) – The presidential runoff in Ukraine is calm, no serious irregularities have been registered, according to observers of the election monitoring mission of the Inter-Parliamentary Assembly of the Commonwealth of Independent States (IPA CIS) for the presidential elections in Ukraine.

The chairman of the Russian Federation Council's committee for CIS affairs Andrei Molchanov said at a press conference at Interfax-Ukraine that mission representatives visited many polling stations in various regions of the country and can say that everything is going on as it should go.

"I can establish a fact that no global irregularities were registered, there are some technical irregularities, someone opened a polling station five minutes later and something else, but as a whole the election is organized well as in the first round, and all polling stations are prepared for voting," he said.

He also said that IPA CIS mission members have optimistic forecasts for the turnout and the quality of the election process.

In turn, a member of the Russian Federation Council Vladimir Zhidkikh said that election commission members at polling stations are friendly.

"I liked the atmosphere at polling stations," he said.

A member of the National Assembly (Milli Meclis) of Azerbaijan Rufat Guliyev said that by 1300 p.m. mission observers registered that the presidential runoff in Ukraine is democratic, and Ukrainians have a chance to calmly cast their ballots to support a certain candidate.