OPORA has analyzed rotations in territorial election commissions (TEC) created by the Central Election Commission. As of 30 September, 932 TEC members were substituted, including 116 heads, 55 deputy heads, 24 secretaries and 737 members. The highest number of substitutions were made in Kyiv oblast (89), Donetsk oblast (71), Cherkasy oblast (64)m and Zaporizhzhia oblast (61). As for parties, All-Ukrainian Union Batkivshchyna, People's Front, and Petro Poroshenko Block 'Solidarity'...

A day before the deadline for official registration of candidates in local elections, Kyiv Administrative Court of Appeals took two totally opposite decisions concerning explanation of the CEC on impossibility to reject candidate registration if a local party cell fails to comply with gender quota requirements in election lists.

      142 of 294 Ukrainian political parties have approved participation of their local organizations in regular local elections scheduled for 25 October 2015, in accordance with the Law of Ukraine on Local Elections. However, only 132 political parties (45% of the total number of registered parties) have managed to submit to the CEC properly drafted documents proving they approved participation of their local organizations in elections.  Thus, less than a half of Ukrainian political part...

142 of 294 Ukrainian political parties have approved participation of their local organizations in regular local elections, and 51 of them have started campaigning before official registration of candidates. Potential candidates and local party cells widely disseminate goods, provide free services, organize infrastructural, social, and charitable projects. Such conduct violates the principle of equal opportunities. There are special concerns about restriction of media access to conferences or...

Dear Deputies have moved 700 kilometers to the east accompanied by representatives of the Committee on Preventing and Combating Corruption. 

Ministry of Internal Affairs has promised to cooperate with Civil Network OPORA and other NGOs observing the election process. Such cooperation is going to help prevent, report and respond to bribery incidents and other election law violations, so that "Chernihiv scenario" wouldn't repeat. Some heads of Ministry of Internal Affairs' departments have affirmed this today on 28 September during a press-conference in Kyiv. Electoral and Parliamentary Programs Coordinator at the Civil Ne...

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 terrorist threat in Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts. 1.2 million of these IDPs are eligible to vote. NGO representatives and Civil Network OPORA in particular have discussed problems related to social and political rights of IDPs at OSCE's Human Dimension Implementation Meeting in Warsaw – the ...

On 26 September 2015, at 11:30 a.m., , a press-conference dedicated to peculiarities of 2015 local election campaign will be held by the Civil Network OPORA, in the UNIAN Information Agency (4 Khreshatyk St., Kyiv)