Parliamentary election campaign in Ukraine to begin on May 24

The election campaign for early parliamentary elections in Ukraine will begin on Friday, May 24, Chairwoman of the Central Election Commission Tetiana Slipachuk has said.

She said this at a briefing on Thursday, according to an Ukrinform correspondent.

"The election process begins on the day after a presidential decree is published. It was published today. The election process commences on May 24," she said.

As was reported earlier, President Volodymyr Zelensky announced the dissolution of parliament in his inaugural speech on May 20. On Tuesday, May 21, Zelensky signed a decree on the early termination of parliamentary powers and the setting of snap elections for July 21. The decree came into force on May 23 after its publication in the government's Uriadovy Kurier newspaper.

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