From 8:00 AM to 20 PM today, 25 October 2015, Ukrainians will be electing members of local self-government bodies, as well as city, village, settlement heads and headmen. There are 132 parties-electoral subjects in this local election campaign. Observers from 83 Ukrainian NGOs and 1554 international observers from 14 countries and 14 international organizations will watch the election process. Civil Network OPORA deploys over 3,000 observers to monitor elections to all Ukrainian regions, and ...

Some online publications have disseminated fake information on 24 October claiming that OPORA had allegedly registered more than six hundred employees of a security guard company as observers in Dnipropetrovsk.

On 26 October at 11:30 a.m., Civil Network OPORA holds a press conference dedicated to the course of the Election Day. The event will be held in the UNIAN Information Agency (4 Khreshatyk St., Kyiv).

  Since the beginning of the election campaign, OPORA has detected 668 violations, mostly violation of campaigning rules (380 violations) and voter bribery (193), as of 22 October. Despite there were some cases of administrative resource abuse, it wasn't neither wide scale, nor systematical. Only 12 of 132 political parties participating in local elections organized active campaigning efforts in two and more oblasts. Poorly thought out regulations, lack of uniformity in their application...

Civil Network OPORA conducts citizen observation of local elections in Ukraine, scheduled for 25 October 2015. Civic monitoring conducted by OPORA - is a type of network activity, aimed at impartial assessment of the preparation and conduct of elections, as well as preventing electoral violations through comprehensive civic action. 144 long-term observers were deployed to all Ukrainian regions on 5 September, and 3000 short-term observers will join them on the election day.

  If you don't want to be hooked by election tricksters. If you are tired of candidates who demonstrate unfair play. Don't take bribes – vote consciously.  

On 23 October at 10:30 a.m., Civil Network OPORA holds a press conference dedicated to the final stage of local election campaign. The event will be held in the UNIAN Information Agency (4 Khreshatyk St., Kyiv).

1554 international observers from 14 countries and 14 international organizations will watch 2015 local elections on 25 October, what is 3 times more than in 2010 local elections. In 2010, 490 observers from 11 countries and 14 international organizations watched the election process in Ukraine.