The People’s Council in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic has agreed to hold a “referendum on the entry of the DPR into the Russian Federation” starting later this week.
DPR leader Denis Pushilin said the vote will be “in a mixed format – face-to-face and remote – taking into account security issues. One day will be set for personal voting”, he said.
The leader of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People’s Republic, Leonid Pasechnik, also signed a law on a referendum “on the entry of the Republic into the Russian Federation”.
Pasechnik’s move was announced by the chairman of the People’s Council of the LPR, Denis Miroshnichenko, shortly after the council unanimously proposed the referendum.
Miroshnichenko said the referendum will be held from September 23 to September 27, according to local media portal Lug-Info.
He quoted him as saying that the question on the ballot would be: “Are you in favor of the LPR joining the Russian Federation as a constituent entity of the Russian Federation?”.
This week has seen sudden moves in Donetsk, Luhansk and occupied parts of Kherson to hold referendums on joining Russia, and these moves have received swift support from Russian politicians.