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  122 of 142 political parties, which had approved participation of their local cells in local elections, nominated candidates. However, activeness of parties varies from region to region. Such unequal representation also concerns parties which have parliamentary factions in the current Parliament. Petro Poroshenko Bloc nominated the highest number of candidates in multi-mandate election districts in all macro regions of Ukraine except for Donbas, where the Opposition Bloc has the highest nu...

According to OPORA's calculations, 122 of 142 local cells of political parties, which passed the corresponding decisions on participation in local elections, have nominated and registered their candidates. Thus, 9 parties have nominated the highest number of candidates to local councils – approximately from 10 to almost 28 thousand. However, 96 political parties have nominated less than 1 thousand candidates. Only Petro Poroshenko Bloc 'Solidarity', Agrarian Party of Ukraine, and ...

  Although some electoral subjects have started campaigning too early and managed to get non-competitive advantages for the certain candidates and parties, the official registration of candidates has finished only on 1 October. Thus, the candidates are allowed to organize campaign efforts in accordance with the Law since this date. We haven't noticed that territorial election commissions would unreasonably refuse to register candidates on a systematic basis. However, OPORA's observe...

We call you to prevent indirect discrimination of internally displaced persons and guarantee them right to elect local self-government bodies as a significant instrument for integration and a proof that Ukraine adheres to international obligations, particularly before UN and Council of Europe. Almost 1.5 million Ukrainian citizens are internally displaced as a result of illegal annexation of the AR Crimea and Sevastopol by the Russian Federation as well as Russian military intervention and...

16 heads oblast state administrations (OSAs) are nominated for members of oblast councils (Vinnytsia, Zakarpattia, Zaporizhia, Ivano-Frankivsk, Rivne, Sumy, Ternopil, Kharkiv, Kherson, Khmelnytsk, Cherkasy, Chernivtsi, Chernihiv, Volyn, Lviv, and Kyiv oblasts). All heads of oblast state administrations were nominated to oblast councils by local cells of Petro Poroshenko Bloc 'Solidarity".

  MPs who adopted the new Law of Ukraine on Local Elections were saying that gender quota in electoral lists is one of its primary benefits. However, according to the quick data from territorial election commissions, local party cells have often ignored law regulations on gender quotas in election lists. The first numbers are interesting not only in terms of adherence to the legislation, but also to see whether parties which were widely promoting gender quota to the public observe it themse...

On 25 September, Irpin territorial election commission has refused to register official observers of Civil Network OPORA. Today, on 2 October, Kyiv District Administrative Court has ruled that this decision of the TEC is illegitimate, and canceled it.