Ukrainian Regions Party is serious about the threat of deranging September 30 elections

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There is a large number of ways to derange the parliamentary elections to be held in Ukraine on September 30, and any party can do this, Ukrainian MP Leonid Kozhara said today commenting on such a possibility to a REGNUM correspondent.

“There a lot of mechanisms to derange the elections. One of the first ones is to hamper convocation of the Supreme Rada, if 150 MPs refuse to take oath. Then the parliament will be incapable. There are many court procedures, when outcomes of the elections will be protested at courts, this can also drag the process. A mechanism to derange the elections is also incorporated in the Central Election Commission (CEC). As it is known, the CEC consists of representatives of all parties in the parliament, so any of the parties can block work of its representatives in the CEC and they would not be able to approve the election outcomes. These are three key ways,” Kozhara said.

The politician believes that there is a possibility that the elections will be deranged both generally in certain regions. “We have information that in eastern regions in Ukraine where positions of the Regions Party are stronger, our opponents – Yulia Timoshenko’s Bloc and Our Ukraine Bloc – are instructing members of elections commissions to persuade them not take part in approving results of the voting. Actually, there a possibility that with the help of such actions the elections can be deranged,” the member of the Regions Party said.