Before the start of the election, I often used to think of Otto von Bismarck with his imperishable “People never lie so much as after fishing, during a war or before an election.” A nice lead for a simple trick of the election process — participation in the campaign of dummy parties and candidates, who act as support to the main contenders for a deputy seat. So an important leverage on the election outcome will be, of course, not the members of election commissions at the district and preci...

Even those who don't know how to use the World Wide Web know that with the help of the internet, one can win an election, like Barack Obama did.  Whether Prykarpattia politicians have followed Obama in the fight for voters, an e-marketing specialist, Head of the Union of Young Political Scientists of Ukraine Andrii Famuha helped OPORA to explore.

In Kharkiv Oblast, the Party of Regions was the first one to start preparing for the parliamentary election. Right according to the political science textbook — no later than a year before.  Running of the campaign component on the electorate has been far-sightedly launched early this year when acting people's deputies of the Party of Regions — potential FPP candidates Valerii Pysarenko, Vitalii Khomutynnik, and Iryna Berezhna — became frequent visitors in Kharkiv and started appearing ...

There are 14 election districts in Kharkiv oblast, 7 of which are in Kharkiv city. 120 candidates were registered in Kharkiv oblast, but 3 of them withdrew their candidatures as of 16 September.

Many candidates for a deputy seat haven't stinted unconventional anti–campaigning methods both in August and September, and used smear to discredit a rival. The highest number of such cases were registered in Kyivskyi Raion of Odesa (E.D. 133), E.D.142 (the centre in Artsyz), and E.D.143 (the centre in Izmail). 

The leader of Zaporizhzhia Oblast Organisation of the All-Ukrainian Union Fatherland and a candidate for People's Deputy on the party list Valerii Krainii — a politician with many years' experience. OPORA spoke with the first person of the Fatherland in Zaporizhzhia Oblast and his relationship with Tariel Vasadze, political defectors, and future results of the parliamentary elections.

In contrast to politicians, most politologists can give adequate assessment to candidates and are aware of all pitfalls of the election campaign. Tetiana Nikolaeva - PhD, politologist, Head of the Political Science Department of Zaporizhzhya National University - is one of those few in the town who can professionally and independently evaluate the course of elections. OPORA have met with Ms. Tetiana and learned about "the trumps" of new politicians, Europeanness of Ukrainian parties, and ex...

An observer from the Civil Network OPORA has interviewed a candidate from the Bratstvo All-Ukrainain political party Dmytro Linko (election district #99) – and received the most ambiguous material ever published.