Observing elections in Norway is like talking to a dog – interesting, but monotonous and predictable soon enough.There were incidents when campaigners of a party were disseminating its ballot papers near the polling station. Such actions do not violate electoral regulations. The country is very tolerant to the voters and helps to vote everyone

Deprivation of deputy mandates through the court can negatively affect Ukrainian parliamentarism in the future, – according to the expert poll conducted by the Civil Network OPORA. On September 12, the Higher Administrative Court has obliged the CEC to deprive MP of Ukraine Ihor Markov, who ran in district #133 in Odesa, of his mandate. Sometime earlier, on February 8, similar decision was taken on cases of majoritarian deputies Pavlo Baloha (district #71) and Oleksandr Dombrovskyi (distric...

On September 13, in Kyiv District Administrative Court, a preliminary hearing was held on the case of the European Party of Ukraine against the Communist Party of Ukraine and the Central Election Commission.

There were 6 Laws on parliamentary elections effective during the independence of Ukraine. Meanwhile, amendments and supplements to the effective legislation were introduced by 29 another Laws. The situation is obviously unstable. Besides that, such swings have improved neither the legislative base, nor the electoral system, which would help to prevent abuse of administrative resource and political corruption, or assist to the development of interparty democracy, nor the procedural part of th...

Improving the electoral legislation remains an important issue on the political agenda. The progress made with respect to the Electoral Code is an integral part of preparations to signing the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement.The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, OSCE/ODIHR, Venice Commission and other influential organizations repeatedly emphasized the need for adoption of the Electoral Code. Furthermore, codification of electoral legislation is one of the trends in its develop...

Improving the electoral legislation remains an important issue on the political agenda. The progress made with respect to the Electoral Code is an integral part of preparations to signing the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement.The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, OSCE/ODIHR, Venice Commission and other influential organizations repeatedly emphasized the need for adoption of the Electoral Code. Furthermore, codification of electoral legislation is one of the trends in its develop...

Non-Governmental Organizations propose to prepare and introduce amendments to the most imperfect electoral law, on the Elections of Deputies to the Verkhovna Rada of Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Deputies of Local Councils, Village, Town and City Heads, in advance; to secure open discussion of amendments to three laws on elections and continue preparation of the Election Code. These propositions are included in the statement, signed by Civil Network OPORA, Election Law Institute, Internews U...

Improving the electoral legislation remains an important issue on the political agenda. The progress made with respect to the Electoral Code is an integral part of preparations to signing the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement.The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, OSCE/ODIHR, Venice Commission and other influential organizations repeatedly emphasized the need for adoption of the Electoral Code. Furthermore, codification of electoral legislation is one of the trends in its develop...