Muslims all over Ukraine (along with most compatriots of other confessions) revealed a high level civil consciousness and came to the ballot stations in the day of snap presidential elections. Most of the population from Donbass and Crimea, unfortunately, couldn’t do the same this year.
According to Mr. Michael Ohendovski, Head of Central Election Commission, the highest number of Crimean people willing to vote was registered in Kyiv (about 1,500), the rest of them voted in other regions of Ukraine.
About a 1,000 people from Crimea and Donbass voted in the Western Ukraine where they found refuge. Tens of thousands Crimean Tatars went to the ballot station in Novoalekseevka (Kherson region) in order to vote for the candidates they preferred.
As reported by “Crimea.Reality”, the Crimean people were very organized on their way to the ballot boxes, in a convoy of about 20 vehicles. Elderly people came to express their will as well.
Ms.Niyara Abdullaeva, who came from Crimea, noted that many of their people would like to come and vote, but only a few of them can take such a distant trip for that purpose, despite the fact that the voters from Crimea could pick any of the preferred ballot stations at the continent.
Ukraine’s MP and Crimean Tatars’ leader Mr. Mustafa Dzhemilev voted in Kyiv. The former Head of Crimean Tatar Mejlis gave a briefing for the press before voting, where he spoke about the current situation in Crimea, namely about the situation of the Crimean tatar people at the peninsula and in the continental Ukraine, and also about the access of his countrymen to expressing their will.
