Despite numerous disagreements and work breaks, District Election Commission #205 has managed to form precinct election commissions through the draw of lots with 361 nominations rejected. At the same time, the DEC decided to reject all nominations of candidate Serhii Berezenko, nominated by Petro Poroshenko Block, due to the incorrect drawing up of documents.

We would like to present you a survey of the work done by three majoritarian MPs in Dnipropetrovsk oblast: Yakiv Bezbakh (SMD #24), Maksym Kuriachyi (SMD #25) and Konstiantyn Pavlov (SMD #31).

On 6-8 June, Chernihiv Oblast Prosecutor's Office, by sole consent of the Head of District Election Commission #205 Mykhailo Punko, has withdrawn nomination documents submitted for registration of PEC members. Such actions were disapproved by some MP candidates claiming that it's interference in the electoral process, as long as there's a risk that their nominees won't be registered as PEC members. The Right Sector representatives were rallying in front of Chernihiv Oblast Pro...

On30 May 2015, by-election campaign has officially started in SMD #205 to fill vacant seat in the Parliament. Before the deadline established by the Law, the CEC has registered a record-breaking number of candidates for MP – 127, and 119 of them are self-nominated candidates. Civil Network OPORA, which conducts election monitoring campaign, has noticed some provocative and use-of-force incidents during the election process, and warns about possible misuse of administrative resources by the ce...

  By-election of MP in SMD #205 (Chernihiv city) is another verification of Ukraine's ability to secure adherence to election process standards. This by-election will show whether positive changes in election administration were made or not before regular local elections, to be held in an extremely complicated social and political situation.  

Seeking election system change for local election, MPs of Ukraine failed to take into consideration that voting rights of internally displaced persons from Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts as well as AR Crimea and Sevastopol must be guaranteed. Draft Law on Local Elections #2831-3, adopted in the first reading, doesn't regulate this problem. Thus, Civil Network OPORA and Donetsk regional branch of the Committee of Voters of Ukraine All-Ukrainian NGO have cooperated with a group of MPs (Nataliia Ve...

We would like to present you a survey of the work done by three majoritarian MPs in Vinnytsia oblast: Oleksii Poroshenko (SMD #12), Ivan Melnychuk (SMD #14) and Ruslan Demchak (SMD #18).

On 2 July 2015, Ukraine's Parliament is planning to consider in the second reading the Law of Ukraine on Local Elections. It is important that the reformed Law on Local Elections should regulate participation of internally displaced persons in regular local election.