On July 1, at 10am, in Big Conference Hall of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, a roundtable titled"Improvement of the Law on Local Elections. Problems and Directions" will take place. The event is organized by the Committee of Voters of Ukraine, Civil Network OPORA, and Mission of the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) to Ukraine

Laws on Elections of People's Deputies of Ukraine and on the Referendum should be amended in correspondence with recommendations of the Venice Commission and the public. Such conclusions can be made from speeches which were aired on June 20 during the round table, organized by the Delegation of the European Union to Ukraine and the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine, with assistance of the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe and the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights OSCE (OD...

7 NGOs involved in electoral matters, human rights protection, and mass media, have proposed to prepare and adopt the unified Election Code. Olha Aivazovska, Electoral and Political Programs Coordinator of the Civil Network OPORA, has aired remarks and propositions during the Roundtable on reforming Electoral legislation in Ukraine, organized on June 20 by the EU Delegation to Ukraine.

Improvement of electoral legislation remains an important issue of political agenda. Making changes to the electoral legislation is an integral part of Ukraine’s preparations for signing EU-Ukraine Association Agreement. In February 2013, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine approved the Plan of priority measures for Ukraine’s integration into EU for 2013.

 

See in a joint project of the Civil Network OPORA and journalists Yuliia Bankova and Andrii Saichuk – TV program Dear Deputies, – broadcasted on June 16, 2013 on the 5th Channel: MP Oleksandr Onyshchenko, elected in single-member district #93 (Kyiv oblast); what the VRU was doing during the last six months, law-making activities in numbers and faces; division of forces in committees, and why they are closed.

From May 22 to June 1, 2013 the Civil Network OPORA was conducting an Expert poll "The Verkhovna Rada of VII convocation:first results." The research was aimed at assessment of internal parliamentary processes, role of the Parliament in society and the state government system, as well as topical directions for the future parliamentary activities