International Observers: We Are Happy With What We Have Seen From The Election Polls

International Observers: We Are Happy With What We Have Seen From The Election Polls PR Newswire KIEV, Ukraine, October 29, 2012 KIEV, Ukraine, October 29, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- th thOn the 28 of October elections will be held in the 7 Parliament of Ukraine (Verkhovna Rada). 22 registered parties will participate in the elections. More than 3000 representatives from 87 parties will participate in single member electoral districts. In accordance with the 2011 law on the elections in Ukraine these parliamentary elections are carried out by the mixed election procedure - 225 candidates in party lists, 225 candidates in majoritarian districts. About 4000 international and 37000 national observers from public organisations are registered in the elections. One such international organisation "Central European political monitoring group" organised the visit of a group of observers from Europe, the USA and Israel to view election polls in the Kiev Ukrainian capital (Irpen, Vyshgorod, Bucha), Sumy (Sumy), Vinnitsa (Vinnitsa), Kharkiv (Kharkiv, Chuguev) and Oblasts. During the observation - which looked at the process of voting and talking to members of the electoral commissions and common voters - international observers agreed that the elections were carried out according to a standard process. The polls are equipped with a necessary number of polling booths and transparent ballot boxes, and web-cameras for the on-air broadcast of the process onto the Internet.