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There are already six candidates for the post of mayor of Kharkiv

Photo: Kharkiv City Council

Extraordinary elections of the mayor of Kharkiv will be held on October 31

Only one candidate is running for a political party. All the rest are self-nominated.

In Kharkiv, the city territorial election commission at a meeting decided to register six candidates for the post of mayor. It is reported by Interfax-Ukraine Saturday, September 27th.

“We registered six candidates who submitted documents, and one was refused,” said the head of the city election committee, Elena Matvienko.

According to her, out of six candidates, only one is running from the party. This is a former judge of the Court of Appeal, head of the Sharia Party faction in the Kharkiv City Council Vladimir Pletnev.

The other five candidates are self-nominated. This is the people’s deputy of several convocations, the ex-head of the Kharkiv Regional State Administration Mikhail Dobkin, who was the mayor from 2006 to 2010, the head of the regional organization of the National Corps Konstantin Nemichev, positioning himself as a single candidate from the pro-Ukrainian forces, the deputy of the Kharkiv Regional Council from the OPSZ, deputy mayor Valery Govorov, ex-deputy of the Kharkiv City Council from the Party of Regions, Dmitry Marinin, and a member of the Our Land party, Alexander Kondrusik, who maintains a blog on Facebook under the name “Sasha Psych”.

Recall that on December 17, 2020, the long-term mayor of Kharkiv Gennady Kernes died at the German clinic Charite as a result of complications from coronavirus disease. He was buried in Kharkov on December 23.

After that, the secretary of the Kharkiv City Council Igor Terekhov appealed to the Verkhovna Rada with a request to appoint new mayoral elections. Parliament set a date for early elections the mayor of Kharkiv as of October 31, 2021.

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