Crimean Tatars to vote in Ukraine's presidential elections

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 Crimean Tatars living in Crimea will be able to elect Ukraine's president on the border area. To do this, Ukrainian authorities, including the Mejlis, will organize columns and people's departure to the polls, Mejlis member Eskender Bariev told the QHA news agency.

He noted that according to the law on the occupied territories and the law on presidential elections, Ukrainian citizens residing in the territory of Crimea can vote in the border area, it may be villages in Kherson region.

However, Bariev explained, there are fears that there will not be enough polling stations, it is needed to provide additional stations.

It is necessary to put the question before the Central Election Commission of Ukraine that tens of thousands of voters may come from Crimea, and if there are so many voters, several polling stations will not be enough. There should be hundreds of stations that will provide it, Bariev said.

Also the Mejlis member added that there is a fear that the Crimean authorities will be preventing in every way, for it is not in the interests of the Russian Federation that tens and hundreds of thousands of people come and vote for the president, thus proving that people in Crimea want to live in Ukraine, in an independent country, want to keep their citizenship.