First Vice-Speaker Oksana Syroyid stated that if early parliamentary elections would be organized based on the existing election law, Ukraine will witness tyranny.
On July 31, the first elections of local councils and heads take place in three amalgamated territorial communities in Rivnenska and Kharkivska Oblasts.
Victor Shevchenko of the UKROP party won the by-election to the Rada in electoral district No. 85 (Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast), the Central Elections Committee reports after processing 100% of the digital protocols
Adviser to the Minister of Defence and famous Ukrainian war volunteer Tetyana Rychkova won the by-election to the Rada in electoral district No. 27 (the city of Dnipro), the Central Elections Committee of Ukraine reported.
Local community activists secured 10 out of 26 seats during by-elections to Kotsiubynske village council near Kyiv, Petro Poroshenko Bloc MP Olga Chervakova wrote on Facebook.
The turnout for the by-election to the Verkhovna Rada in district #114 in Luhansk Oblast was 63.07%, according to the website of the Central Election Commission. The total turnout for all by-election districts was 35.78%.
Winning Verkhovna Rada by-election candidates drawing the most media attention are Maksym Mykytas, independent candidate (#206 district in Chernihiv, 32%), Serhiy Nasalyk of Petro Poroshenko Bloc (#85 district in Ivano-Frankivsk, 22.1%), and independent candidate Tetiana Rychkova (#27 district in Dnipro, 46.1%).
Explosive devices, either real or hoax, were reported at voting centers in Kherson, Petro Poroshenko Bloc informs on Facebook, referring to its Kherson regional office.
Four of the six political parties represented in the Parliament agreed to disclose their financial reporting to a new NGO coalition seeking to counter political corruption.
MPs from Petro Poroshenko Bloc Mustafa Nayyem, Serhiy Leshchenko, and Svitlana Zalishchuk, as well as independent MP Victoria Ptashnyk became members of the Democratic Alliance party.
Ihor Hryniv, Leader of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc parliamentary faction, has expressed disapproval of the Supreme Court of Ukraine’s decision to cancel the Parliamentary resolution to dissolve the village council in Kotsiubynske and hold elections there.
Kasko announces that the ‘initiative group’ has “united energy and efforts and started the process of creating a political force of an absolutely new nature and principles that will lead Ukraine to the club of successful countries.”
Kostiantyn Yeliseiev, Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration, uttered that Ukraine insists on deploying an OSCE armed mission in Donbas to ensure safe elections there.
