Civil Network OPORA calls MPs of Ukraine not to delay the adoption of a new Law on Local Elections in the first reading and elaborate the basic draft law for the second reading with all the factions and election law experts involved. Imitation of the reform or political will in such fundamentally important issue as electoral law reform can undermine trust to the coalition and question the ability of MPs to fulfill their duties independently of personal or narrow party interests.

We would like to present you analytical reports on the work done by three majoritarian MPs in Kyiv oblast: Andrii Biletskyi (SMD #217); Dmytro Andriievskyi (SMD #222) and Yurii Levchenko (SMD #223). The report covers activities of the MP in constituency, personal reception of citizens, ways to solve problems in the district and mass media coverage of MPs' activities.

We would like to present an analytical report covering three single-member districts in Dnipropetrovsk oblast, which have the following representatives in the Parliament: Yakov Bezbakh (SMD #24), Maksym Kuriachyi (SMD #25) and Konstiantyn Pavlov (SMD #31). The report covers constituency activities of abovementioned MPs in May: personal reception of citizens; solution of problems in the district; and coverage of their activities in the media.

During the International Conference on June 23 participants will assess the quality of electoral reform ongoing in Ukraine, and discuss an action plan directed to organization of democratic local elections in autumn 2015. The focus of the conference is electoral law innovations, compliance with the international obligations of Ukraine (EU, Council of Europe, OSCE), and security factors that influence the election and its outcome. The registration to the conference is open until June 22.

We would like to present you a survey of the work done by three majoritarian MPs in Lviv oblast: Oksana Yurynets (SMD #117, Petro Poroshenko Block faction), Bohdan Dubnevych (SMD #118, Petro Poroshenko Block faction), and Volodymyr Parasiuk (SMD #122, non-faction) in May 2015.

The current Parliament had 1.7 times more working days than the Parliament of VII convocation. President and Government demonstrate much higher efficiency coefficient in law-making activities compared to MPs who have developed only 13% initiatives that received Parliament’s approval (368 of 2.777). Thus, 74% of introduced presidential legislative initiatives (26 of 35) and 35% of Cabinet of Ministers' initiatives (56 of 159) were approved by the Parliament. You can know more about law-mak...

  There are some trends worth mentioning about the first half-year activities of the Verkhovna Rada: the number of registered bills has increased in 15% if compared to the Parliament of VII convocation; the national security and defense issues, activities of law-enforcement bodies, tax and customs policy became topical; and presidential legislative initiatives are stably supported – 74% adopted. However, the following issues still remain topical: low attendance on plenary sessions and c...

In this series of the TV program broadcasted on 8 June, you'll see who is the worst "button pusher" in the Parliament and how struggle against them, you'll know how high a political culture of MPs is on meeting of the Prime-Minister, and you'll feel behind the scenes atmosphere of parliamentary work performed by Vice Speaker of the Parliament Andrii Parubii.