The solution the Parliament has chosen for appointment of early mayoral election in Kryvyi Rih is quite ambiguous from the legal perspective, and its legitimacy in questioned by a number of political subjects. At the same time, all the participants of political race must respect the right of Kryvyi Rih citizens to choose the future of their territorial community. Some potential candidates started campaigning too early, before they were nominated and registered. It is impossible to secure over...

Ukrainian delegation took part in the regional workshop “Open Parliaments, Engaged Citizen” (Casta-Pepiernicka, Slovakia). An expert of Civil Network OPORA Nadiia Babynska and MP of Ukrainian Parliament Ivan Krulko participated in this event. Ivan Krulko presented The Legislative Openness Action Plan of Ukrainian Parliament that was adopted by the order of Speaker of Parliament on the 5th of February, 2016. MP focused on the main areas of the Action Plan and commitments that have be...

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On 6 November 2016, the early mayoral election campaign has started in Kryvyi Rih. Preparations for organization and conduct of elections, scheduled for 27 March, are made quite properly. However, the fact that some potential candidates started early campaigning is against the principle of equal opportunities for other participants of the election.

On Thursday, 25 February 2016, at 12:30 PM in the press-center of UNIAN Information Agency (Kyiv, 4 Khreshatyk St.), Civil Network OPORA is holding a press-conference dedicated to preliminary observation results of early mayoral election in Kryvyi Rih.

OPORA calls on the Kyiv City Council, the Central Election Commission, as well as local and national political subjects to guarantee citizens of the capital realization of their rights.

Civil Network OPORA calls on Ukrainian Parliament to repeal the Law on exclusion of MP candidates from electoral lists due to the gross violation of citizen constitutional right to elect or be elected as well as of parliamentary procedure rules in the process of its adoption. However, if the Verkhovna Rada refuses to repeal this Law, we call on the President of Ukraine to veto it.

On 16 February, Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted the Law of Ukraine on Amendment of the Law on Elections of People's Deputies of Ukraine (concerning exclusion of MP candidates from an electoral list in multi-mandate district). The Law (#3700) was introduced by leaders of five parliamentary factions, Petro Poroshenko Bloc, Solidarity, People's Front, Samopomich Union, AUU Batkivshchyna, and Radical Party of Oleh Liashko.