OU-PSD proposes postponing local elections until autumn

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Our Ukraine-People's Self-Defense (OU-PSD) MP Oksana Bilozir has proposed postponing until this autumn the elections to the local councils, as well as the election of city mayors and village heads, the parliamentarian's press service reported on Friday.

She registered a bill to that effect in the Ukrainian parliament on Friday.

The bill of amendments to a Verkhovna Rada resolution scheduling the election of deputies to the local councils, as well as the election of city mayors and village heads in 2010, proposes postponing local elections from May 30 until September 26, 2010.

An explanatory note to the bill says that the elections could be disrupted due to the difficult financial and economic situation in the country and the absence of the state budget for 2010.

12.02.2010