The State Secretariat for Nation Policy finds it regrettable that the Central Election Committee of Ukraine has decided to establish new electoral districts before the local government elections of October. The restructuring of the electoral districts of Bereg County – which affects Hungarians living in Transcarpathia the most – makes no sense, as the settlements of the four newly established electoral districts are not even neighbouring ones.

Establishing new district borders may negatively influence the chance of representatives of Hungarian communities to get into the Transcarpathian Regional Council at a time when the two Hungarian parties could jointly represent the interests of Hungarians in a uniform way.

The State Secretariat for Nation Policy considers it particularly important that a democratic state in the process of approaching Europe observes European norms and basic rights of minorities’ expressing their interests.

(Prime Minister's Office)