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Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has submitted to the Verkhovna Rada a draft decree on the appointment of 11 new members of the Central Election Commission.

Relevant document No. 4790 dated June 3 was posted on the parliament’s website on June 7.

According to the document, the head of state nominated Deputy Education and Science Minister – Head of Staff of the Education and Science Ministry of Ukraine Roman Hreba, Head of the Analytics Department and Management Department of the Interior Ministry of Ukraine Mykhailo Verbensky, Deputy Head of the Secretariat of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Legal Policy and Justice Olha Zheltova for the membership in the CEC.

The president also proposed to appoint legal consultant Svitlana Kustova, judge Alla Basalayeva, lawyer Oleh Kolopolsky, notary public and assistance professor of the Constitutional and Administrative Law Department of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv Olha Lotiuk, notary public and former Deputy Minister of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine Nadia Synytsia, and Head of the Unit for Local Government Agencies Monitoring and Support for Lawmaking Initiatives of the Local Self-Government and Decentralization Department of the Presidential Administration of Ukraine Vitaliy Plukar as members of the Central Election Commission.

The president also nominated Kyiv-Mohyla Academy Professor Leontiy Shypilov, whose candidacy was proposed by the People’s Front faction, and public activist and former Deputy Board Chairman of the Committee of Voters of Ukraine Yevhen Radchenko, a candidate from the Sampomich faction, for the membership in the CEC.

As reported, Poroshenko also submitted a draft decree on the dismissal of 12 CEC members, including the commission’s chairman Mykhailo Okhendovsky.