It was not possible to disrupt the elections: the Supreme Court decided that there would be no re-draw of parties
The Court of Cassation as part of the Supreme Court upheld the appeal of the Central Election Commission and overturned the decision of the Sixth Administrative Court of Appeal to re-draw the parties, PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Resolution to cancel the court decision of July 8. The appeals of the Central Election Commission, the political parties “Servant of the People”, “Strength and Honor”, “Opposition Bloc” are satisfied. The decision of the Sixth Administrative Court of Appeal dated July 4, 2019 was overturned,” the Cassation Administrative Court said in a statement.
We would like to remind you that on July 6, a number of parties filed a cassation appeal to the Supreme Court against the decision of the Sixth Administrative Court of Appeal to hold a repeat drawing of parties to determine their serial numbers on the ballot papers for the early elections of the Rada.
At the time of the court decision on the re-draw, the CEC had already printed actually 5 million ballots; stopping this process and holding a new draw, according to the Chairman of the CEC Tatyana Slipachuk, could lead to the disruption of the elections.
Earlier, Kyiv political experts called Viktor Medvedchuk’s “For Life” party the main interest in the draw, dissatisfied with the fact that the Muravev-Vilkul-Kernes Opposition Bloc, which competes with it, received a more advantageous first place on the ballot. Also among the interested forces was Petro Poroshenko, whose party rating is falling and risks falling below the 5% threshold. The draw could have disrupted the election process due to delays in printing ballots. Almost all observers agree that the formal subject of the complaint about the result of the draw - the Agrarian Party - could not have any real interest in this process.
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