TV program Dear Deputies is a joint project of the OPORA, Hromadske TV, and the First National TV Channel. This weekly program provides the audience information about activities and inaction of MPs, their salaries, offices, internal matters, soviet spirit of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine and international experience of parliamentarism. This program is goaled to explain complicated things in a comprehensible way and make people smile if there is a reason.

Internews-Ukraine, Committee of Voters of Ukraine, OPORA Civic Network, Ukrainian Center for Independent Political Research and Election Law Institute believe that amendments to the laws governing national and local elections should be prepared by one and the same Working Group, which should be established under the Parliamentary Committee on Legal Policy and Justice. Further, the Working Group should be established no later than in February 2015, so that the draft new ver...

Election law reform is a top priority direction for improvement of political system in Ukraine. Five deputy factions of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of VIII convocation have agreed in the Coalition agreement that laws on parliamentary and local elections should be urgently amended. Main political players have reached a consensus regarding a proportional system with open lists for parliamentary elections and have partly agreed on the system for local elections.

After 2 months of work, the newly-elected parliament has failed to make any steps towards realization of the election law reform, which is the top priority goal for the political system update provided by the Coalition agreement. Thus, Civil Network OPORA in the partnership with the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES), Internews-Ukraine and Committee of Voters of Ukraine has organized the first planned public discussion on the content of amendments to the election law and pr...

On 22 January 2015 a public discussion "Real Electoral Reform: Algorithm of Actions" will be held in Kyiv. The discussion is organized by the Civil Network OPORA in partnership with the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES), the Internews-Ukraine and the Committee of Voters of Ukraine. MPs of Ukraine, members of the CEC, leading election law experts, representatives of political parties and NGOs, diplomatic missions and international organizations are invited to the event. The...

On 29 and 30 November, OPORA's activists together with political analysts, journalists, media managers and experts of the election law discussed the course and results of 2014 parliamentary election campaign, as well as challenges and threats that can emerge in current social and political situation.

Taking into consideration that elections were not held in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, temporarily occupied by the Russian Federation, and illegal armed formations and terrorist groups interfered into the election process in Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts, the voter turnout in early elections to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine was quite high – 52.42%. Similarly to the Presidential election in May, activeness of the voters was changing throughout the day from the center to the west of the c...

Despite the results of early parliamentary elections have already been announced, some interesting facts regarding activities of the votes and high support given to the parties which would be impossible yet four years ago. For example, the fact that Petro Poroshenko received the highest number of votes not in the western Ukraine, but in two districts of Donetsk oblast. At the same time, the Opposition Block has also received the highest number of votes in Donetsk oblast, but in district #57, ...