This article is based on information about majoritarian candidates, published on website of the CEC. As long as average citizens cannot analyze all the data, we created a joint information portrait of parliamentary candidates.

Today, before the upcoming Parliamentary elections scheduled for 26 October 2014, we observe increasing number of activities that have features of electoral violations. Thus, legislation establishing responsibility for indirect voter bribery should be urgently adopted. Both persons offering incentives for realization of voting rights and the voters themselves should be brought to responsibility. Civil Network OPORA calls MPs of Ukraine to urgently take into consideration and adopt the Law of ...

If you will be far from your voting address (residential registration) on the voting day, but want to use your voting right in Parliamentary elections scheduled for 26 October 2014, you are welcome to follow OPORA's advice. According to the Article 7(3) of the Law of Ukraine on the State Register of Voters, citizens of Ukraine have the right to temporarily (for the election day) change the voting place (polling station) without changing the voting address. Citizens who are registered in...

6,627 candidates will participate in early parliamentary elections in Ukraine, including 312 current MPs (mostly form the  Bloc of Petro Poroshenko, the Batkivshchyna, and the AUU Svoboda). Most of candidates graduated higher education institutions (92%). It's interesting that 98% of candidates included in the list of the Opposition Bloc party are unaffiliated candidates. However, 100% of nominees from the AUU Svoboda and 99% from the Communist Party are affiliated to political parties. W...

Open appeal of the OPORA to electoral subject the Petro Poroshenko Bloc political party, and the Central Election Commission concerning the nomination and registration of MP candidate Vitalii Chudnovskyi in SMD #200.

Early Parliamentary elections in Ukraine are being organized while the military aggression of regular army units of the Russian Federation and illegal armed groups in some raions of Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts continues. In the best-case scenario, according to OPORA's estimation as of 1 October, the elections will be held in 18 of 32 districts of Donbass; in the worst-case scenario – only in 9. Less than 10 of 52 political parties registered in the CEC as electoral subjects conduct system...

Civil Network OPORA conducts a wide-scale monitoring of Early Parliamentary Elections in Ukraine scheduled for 26 October 2014. The organization attracted 213 long-term observers (one in each single-member district) and 2,000 short-term observers, which will conduct parallel vote tabulation based on statistical sample. OPORA will systematically inform the public about the course of election campaign, and whether electoral subjects adhere to the electoral legislation, officials participate in ...

On the 2nd October 2014, at 11:30am, a press-conference will be held by the Civil Network OPORA in the UNIAN Information Agency (4 Khreshatyk St., Kyiv). During the event, experts will discuss the most widespread violations of electoral legislation committed by candidates and parties, typical portrait of a majoritarian candidate, rotations and political influences in district election commissions, and opportunities for realization of electoral rights by Ukrainian citizens living in Donbas reg...