The Committee on Human Rights, National Minorities and International Relations recommends the Committee on Judicial Policy to facilitate the consideration of draft law #6240 and recommend the VRU to take it as a basis after the first reading. Experts of the Civil Network OPORA are also co-authors of the Draft Law on Electoral Rights of IDPs and Migrant Workers.

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Central Scientific Experts Office (CSEO) approves the approach, suggested by NGO experts in draft law #6240, concerning the registration of voting address based on the factual residence address. The approval is available in CSEO's opinion attached to the draft law on website of the Verkhovna Rada.

We monitored activities of 88 majoritarian MPs in March and determined that Roman Matsola from Khmelnytsk oblast (Petro Poroshenko Bloc faction), who was the top active candidate in the previous month, also leads this month's constituency and parliamentary activeness rating. However, MP Mykhailo Bondar from Lviv oblast (Narodnyi Front faction) was the most active in law-making activities.

Civil Network OPORA continues tracking activities of MPs, elected in single-mandate majoritarian districts. In 2017, we monitor 88 MPs, compared to 36 in 2015 and 105 in 2016.

The Parliament should urgently appoint 13 new members of the Central Election Commission. Civil society and political players from different government branches can restore the trust in the central election administration body and, as a result, in the institution of elections as a whole.

On 12 April, individuals, who presented themselves as representatives of the organization “Civil movement “OPORA””, held a rally in front of Dnipro City Council. They used symbols and name that is similar to a shortened name of the Civil Network OPORA.

A marathon is the hardest for those who planned to take a walk in a suit. Maybe it's real to run 42 kilometers marathon for a person trained for a half marathon, but not for an average man or women. Only highly and purely motivated people are able to do the revolutions.