Ukraine to spend over $70M on presidential elections, – CEC
Over 2 billion hryvnia ($71.3 million) will be spent on the organization of the presidential elections in Ukraine.
"So far, the total amount is 2.354 billion hryvnia ($80 million), of which about 1.5 billion hryvnia ($53.5 million) will be spent on the first round of elections, and 848 million hryvnia ($30.2 million) on the second round of elections," Deputy Chairman of the Central Election Commission (CEC), Yevhen Radchenko told a press conference in Kyiv, Censor.NET reports citing UNIAN.
According to CEC Secretary Natalia Berdatska, the commission expects that, when considering the draft state budget for 2019 in the second reading, the lawmakers will take into account comments on the redistribution of funds that were not used for local elections. "We plan to use them for cyber security. We hope we will have time to hold tenders and purchase technical equipment to ensure cyber security," she said.
The presidential elections in Ukraine will be held on March 31, 2019. The start of the election campaign is scheduled for Dec. 31, 2018. The registration of potential candidates to the CEC and the election campaign begins from this day, which ends at midnight on the last Friday before the vote. The final list of candidates for the presidency will be announced until Feb. 9, 2019.
