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    Incumbent Odesa Mayor Trukhanov declared winner in Oct. 25 mayoral election
    ▻http://www.kyivpost.com/content/politics/incumbent-odesa-mayor-trukhanov-declared-winner-in-oct-25-mayoral-election

    The Odesa city elections commission has declared incumbent Mayor Hennadiy Trukhanov the winner in the mayoral elections, even though Odesa regional administration chief Mikheil Saakashvili had suggested earlier that Trukhanov and his main rival should run in the second round.

    The city elections commission head announced on Oct. 27 evening that Trukhanov had garnered nearly 139,000 votes, or 52.9 percent of all those who cast their ballots in the elections, so securing his victory in the first round.

    Oleksandr Borovyk (Sasha Borovyk), an adviser to the Odesa regional administration head, came in second with 66,500 votes, or 25.7 percent of the vote. Former Odesa Mayor Eduard Hurvits came in third, having garnered 22,500 votes, or 8.5 percent of the vote.

    H. Trukhanov était membre du Parti des Régions de Ianoukovytch.

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      Saakachvili et son candidat contestent le résultat.

      Recount urged in Odesa mayoral vote as Saakashvili’s aide disputes results
      ▻http://www.kyivpost.com/content/politics/recount-likely-in-odesa-mayoral-vote-as-saakashvilis-aide-disputes-results

      Odesa Oblast Governor Mikheil Saakashvili and his aide Sasha Borovik, a candidate in Odesa’s Oct. 25 mayoral election, are disputing the results of the vote.

      They allege incumbent Mayor Hennady Trukhanov’s preliminary victory in the first round - meaning more than 50 percent of the vote - could be due to voting fraud. They have presented evidence of alleged violations and said a runoff must take place.

      Trukhanov’s spokeswoman Natalia Malsteva defended the incumbent mayor by telling the Kyiv Post that election watchdogs had not observed large-scale vote rigging.

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      Ex-Georgian president’s Ukraine ambitions suffer blow | GlobalPost [AFP]
      ▻http://www.globalpost.com/article/6676929/2015/10/28/ex-georgian-presidents-ukraine-ambitions-suffer-blow

      But Odessa’s mayoral election commission said Wednesday that incumbant mayor Gennadiy Trukhanov — allegedly tied to the vast business interests of Saakashvili’s foe Igor Kolomoyskiy — was re-elected with 52.9 percent of Sunday’s vote.
      Saakashvili-backed candidate Sasha Borovik placed a distant second by picking up just 25.7 percent of the ballots cast.
      The former Georgian leader denounced the vote as grossly mismanaged and marred by violations.
      […]
      Trukhanov was a member of the now-disbanded Regions Party that brought Russian-backed president Viktor Yanukovych to power in a tightly fought 2010 race.
      He also supported pro-Kremlin protests in the ethnically mixed city after Yanukovych’s fall from power and subsequent flight for safety to Russia.

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