Chairman of the Parliament of Ukraine V.Groysman invited the NATO Parliamentary Assembly's observers to monitor the course of the local elections in Ukraine on 25 October 2015. Appropriate formal invitation was passed to the President of NATO PA Michael Turner.
According to the decree of the Ukrainian Parliament №2148a of 17 July 2015, regular elections of local councils’ deputies, city and town mayors are scheduled for Sunday, 25 October 2015. Regular elections of the deputies of the Crimean Parliament and all local councils’ deputies, city and town mayors on the temporarily occupied territories of Autonomous Republic of Crimea and city of Sevastopol will not be held.