Plan for the next week

The Civic Network OPORA publishes the calendar plan of local elections.

 August 30 is the deadline for the CEC for*:

• publishing information about the number of voters having voting address within the territory of each city, as well as the electoral system for election of the mayor on the official website of the Central Election Commission, as well as in national and / or local media. This obligation of the CEC is set out in Part 7 of Article 2 of the Law of Ukraine "On local elections."

• announcing the start of the electoral process. The decision must be published in the national media or otherwise on the day following adoption. Such a procedure is established in Part 7 of Article 15.

The Start Date is, actually, already known. It is September 5, as the election process begins fifty days before the election day (second paragraph of Part 1 of Article 15 of the Law).

Also recall that back on August 28, the CEC, by the Resolution № 193 (http://goo.gl/U8VnC8) announced on September 5th the start of the electoral process of the FIRST local elections in 74 ASSOCIATIONS of communities in Volyn, Dnipropetrovsk, Zhytomyr, Ivano-Frankivsk, Kirovohrad , Odessa, Poltava, Khmelnytsky, Chernivtsi regions.

*According to the calendar plan of organizational measures on preparation and holding of regular elections of deputies of local councils and village, town and city mayors on October 25, 2015.