Interfax: DPR won’t hold Ukrainian elections – Purgin

MOSCOW. Oct 17 (Interfax) – The administration of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic is calm about the statement made by European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, who said the elections in the DPR are to be conducted in accordance with Ukrainian legislation.

“Our position remains unchanged. We will not allow any Ukrainian elections on our territory. As for Barroso, we don’t owe him anything, I have checked,” Andrei Purgin, first deputy prime minister of the DPR, told Interfax.

Some news media have reported that the European Commission president said at a meeting on Ukraine in Milan that the elections in the DPR and the LPR should be conducted in accordance with Ukrainian legislation.

Meanwhile, the administrations of the self-proclaimed republics said previously on more than one occasion that they have no intension of holding Ukrainian parliamentary elections and elections to the local self-governance bodies organized by Kyiv on the territory controlled by them. Instead, the DPR and the LPR plan to hold their own elections to the Supreme Councils and elections of the heads of the republics on November 2.