The parliaments of the Lugansk and Donetsk People’s Republics and the Zaporozye and Kherson regions will hold party-list elections, said Viktor Vodolatsky, coordinator for ties with the LPR parliament, first deputy chairman of the State Duma lower house of the Russian parliament committee for CIS Affairs, Eurasian Integration and Relations with Compatriots.
“The LPR, as other new regions, will use the party list voting system in accordance with the regional Constitution. There will be no single member district elections,” Russia’s TASS news agency quoted Vodolatsky as saying.
The parliamentary elections will be held together with the elections to local self-ruled bodies, he said.
On January 19, the LPR parliament approved the law on election/referendum commissions in the Republic. LPR Acting Head Leonid Pasechnik said that the document envisioned the opportunity to hold remote e-voting.
Russian Central Election Commission chairperson Ella Pamfilova said that the CEC had been making scheduled preparations for elections in the new regions on Single Voting Day on September 10.
The Lugansk People’s Republic acceded to Russia on September 30, 2022 following the unification referendum.*i*v
