EP Delegation for the Election Observation in Kiev, Ukraine. Election Day, observation of Opening and Voting and statement by Andrej PLENKOVIĆ (EPP,HR), Chair of the EP Observation Delegation

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Parliamentary elections in Ukraine - Election Observation Delegation: Election Day, observation of Opening and Voting and statement by Andrej PLENKOVIĆ (EPP,HR), Chair of the EP Observation Delegation

Arrival of European Parliament Election Observer Rebecca HARMS (Greens/EFA, DE) and European Parliament advisers at polling station nr 686 in Vinogradar district, outskirts of Kiev (4 shots)

Rebecca HARMS (Greens/EFA, DE) observing the opening of the polling station and discussing with local election supervisors (5 shots)

Atmosphere shots polling station (3 shots)

Shot of candidate list photo of Nadiya Savschenko (candidate no1 Batkivshchyna party), Ukrainian Army pilot captured by pro-Russian insurgents in eastern Ukraine and imprisoned in Russia

Shot of candidate list photo of Yulia TYMOSCHENKO (Candidate no 2 Batkivschchyna party)

Atmosphere shots of polling station people checking lists and voting (5 shots)

Exterior of polling station nr.223, in Andriyvskiy Uzviz, Central Kiev

Andrej PLENKOVIĆ (EPP,HR), Chair of the EP Election Observation delegation, and staff looking at candidate list in polling station

Close-up of candidate list photo of Arsenyi YATSENYUK (current Prime Minister, People's Front)

Andrej PLENKOVIĆ (EPP,HR), Chair of the EP Election Observation delegation, and staff observing at polling station (7 shots)

Leonid KUCHMA, former President of Ukraine arrives at polling station, shakes hand with EP Election Observation delegation,Andrej PLENKOVIĆ (EPP,HR) and proceeds to vote ( 2 shots).

SOUNDBITE (English), Andrej PLENKOVI&#262; (EPP, HR), Chair of the EP Election Observation delegation,Andrej PLENKOVI&#262;, "And we have observed that the electoral process and the actual voting and checking of the documents is going really in an orderly fashion, in a calm atmsophere. We talked to the electoral commission here and they are informing us that everything is in the best possible order, the voting is proceeding normally."

SOUNDBITE (English), Andrej PLENKOVI&#262; (EPP, HR), Chair of the EP Election Observation, "We are contact with our teams in Kharkiv ,Odessa, Dnepropetrovsk and Cherkasy, and everything seems to be going fine. The Observers are in constant contact, and the rest of the European Parliament's team as well as the rest of the contacts I had in the course of the morning with our friends from the Council of Europe,  the OHDIR/OSCE, and the NATO PA, their impressions are also very positive and correct."

Chair of the EP Election Observation delegation,Andrej PLENKOVIĆ (EPP,HR) paying his respect by memorial plaque for "the Heavenly Hundred" killed during Maidan events (2 shots)

Chair of the EP Election Observation delegation,Andrej PLENKOVIĆ (EPP,HR) paying his respect before the Institutska Memorial for the victims of the Maidan events (4 shots)