Members of election commissions in Mariupol sympathize with the DPR – media
Moscow – Kyiv, October 27 (PolitNavigator, Mikhail Shtamm) In Mariupol, as in the rest of the Ukrainian-controlled Donbas, the Opposition Bloc, which unites former deputies from the Party of Regions, declared victory in the Verkhovna Rada elections, reports a Kommersant correspondent who visited the city during the elections . However, among the 30s, there are many supporters of "self-help."
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According to the exit poll, in the city as a whole and in other areas of Donbass controlled by the Ukrainian authorities, the victory was won by the “Opposition Bloc”, which united former “regional” deputies, and single-mandate representatives from the former party in power.
In the Mariupol city lyceum on Lenin Avenue in the morning, mostly pensioners went to the polling station.
Military personnel mobilized to participate in the ATO were brought to the nearby school N3 to vote. The military did not want to be photographed or talk about their party preferences.
“There have already been two games since the morning. They are brought in in an organized manner, they vote and leave,” says one of the members of the election commission. “But they can only vote for parties; they do not have registration to vote in a single-mandate constituency.”
His colleague on the commission called the correspondent outside to talk: “I understood from the conversation that you are from Moscow. But I decided not to vote and rather sympathize with the DPR. Let people enjoy the two-color for the last time, but soon there will be another government here. And those who are sitting in Kyiv do not spare either the people who are already strangers to them in Donetsk, or those who are still here.”
A man of about fifty, moving away from the ballot box, says that he decided to vote for the “Petro Poroshenko Bloc.”
"We need to give the president a chance to carry out reforms and stop the war," he explains of his choice. "But my children went to vote for Samopomich. There's a notorious battalion commander on the party list (Donbass Battalion commander Semyon Semenchenko was number two on the party list), but for some reason, 30-year-olds are choosing that party . "
Mariupol election commission members sympathize with the DPR, according to media reports.