Internally displaced Ukrainians are protesting in front of the Ukrainian parliament demanding their right to vote in October local elections.
The protesters set up a voting booth with the sign “No entry for internally displaced.”
Currently there are three bills designed to protect the voting rights of internally displaced. The protesters are demanding that parliament vote on them.
The voting will take place on October 25, 2015. The peculiarity of the local elections lies in the fact that only citizens of certain territorial units have the right to vote.
According to representative of Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights Mykhaylo Chaplyha, at least 1.5 million people are deprived of this right, having been forced to leave their homes due to Russian aggression in Eastern Ukraine and Crimea.
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