NGOs of Vinnytsia expressed their concern for the future Ukrainian electoral legislation. In Vinnytsia was held a roundtable initiated by the Agency for Legislative Initiatives, Committee of Voters of Ukraine, Ukrainian Center for Independent Political Research and Civic network OPORA, where experts, representatives of political parties, NGOs, active members of election commissions and journalists discussed possible amendments to the law on parliamentary elections.

Rising electoral threshold to 5% on 2012 parliamentary elections in Ukraine, provided by the governmental law, provokes a direct analogy with Russian technologies of strengthening the governmental vertical in early 2000ies.

11 November will be six month since the Law of Ukraine "On Access to Public Information” has been put into action. This period showed that adoption of a law in Ukraine doesn't guarantee its implementation. Especially when talking about the law which should help fighting corruption

Public discussion on the electoral legislation reform in Ukraine will be held on 17 November in Rivne, from 11am to 16pm in conference hall of the Regional municipal enterprise “Rivne House of Scientists”, by the address Str. S. Petliury 17. Discussion will be held within the project "Organization of wide and open public discussion on the development of electoral legislation in Ukraine." The aim of the project was to attract wide circle of civic experts and everyone who is interested in ref...

4 November 2011 in Luhansk was held public discussion on the electoral reform in Ukraine. Event was organized by the Civic Consortium of election initiatives, which united NGOs specialized in election law and election process.

Serhii Podhornyi - Chairman of the subcommittee on election legislation and civic associations and a member of a newly-formed temporary special commission of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine for the preparation of the draft Law of Ukraine on Elections of People's Deputies of Ukraine. The deputy spoke about his impressions of the commission's work and shared his thoughts on the electoral reform perspectives.

6 November 2011 ended training in the School of Public Control on Local government activity conducted by the Lviv office of Civil Network OPORA.

For your information: a comparative table of the draft Law "On Elections of People’s Deputies of Ukraine” (registration No. 9265 of 6.10.2011 (introduced by O.Choronovolenko, V.Koval', B.Tarasyuk), No. 9265-1 of 10.10.2011 (introduced by O.Yefremov, I.Sharovyy and others, so called “draft law by the Working Group on improving electoral legislation”), No. 9265-2 of 18.10.2011 (introduced by Yu.Klyuchkovs'kyy, M.Tomenko and others), Developed by the Consortium of Election Initiatives.