In Mykolayiv Region, “Batkivshchyna” Attempts to Include a Member to TEC from the “Servant of the People”, While the “Servant of the People” Tries to Have the Member from “Batkivshchyna”

Today, on 30 May, the 40 session of Mykolaiv City Council was held, on which the new Mayor has assumed the office, elected by citizens of Mykolaiv simultaneously with the President on 25 May.

On May 26, during the press-conference in Mykolaiv, representatives of the Civil Network OPORA have presented the summary of election observation campaign during Presidential Elections in Ukraine. In particular, they aired the voter turnout and voting results based on the statistically-based quick count while focusing on the national and local peculiarities.

On 26 May in the evening, Mykolaiv city election commission has received and processed the protocols on voting results in 4 raion election commissions in city of Mykolaiv, and voted for the protocol on the results of voting during special elections of Mykolaiv mayoral election, and then for the protocol on the determination of election results.

  In PEC #480879 (district #129), commission members forgot to seal 15 ballots. The information was reported by an observer of Civil Network OPORA.

  The PEC #480896 (district #129) has issued more ballots for voting at the place of stay than it was indicated in the excerpt. This incident was detected by observer V.S. Kupetskyi from P. Poroshenko.  

  In Mykolaiv at the polling station #480886 (district #129) one of the voters noticed a torn and crumpled ballots at the station's threshold. Commission members and the police were informed about the incident. There were also recorded similar incidents.  

The Chief ofMykolaiv Oblast Police Department Artur Merikov cannot guarantee 100% that the election process will be quiet in the oblast, but assures that the situation is under control. He told this during the meeting with oblast coordinator of CN OPORA Olena Kabashna and representative of the UN Yuliia Serbina.

In Mykolaiv oblats all 939 polling stations began their work. This information came from OPORA observers, who received data from 6 distric electoral comissions. We remind that today the citizens of Mykolaiv oblast elect the President of Ukraine, whereas the dwellers of Mykolaiv city also vote for the city Mayor.

During repeated parliamentary elections in 5 single-member majoritarian election districts, observers of Civil Network OPORA conducted parallel vote tabulation. In districts #194 (Cherkasy city), #223 (Kyiv city), and #132 (Pervomaisk city), 100% of polling stations were covered by OPORA's activists. In district #94 (centered in Obukhiv city) – 63%; #197 (centered in Kaniv city) – 71%.