Civil Network OPORA continues to talk to representatives of various political forces on our Facebook page, within the “Deputy Day” program - we discuss changes to the Electoral Code and the conduct of local elections. This Friday, April, 10, the program invited Tetiana Plachkova, a people’s deputy from the “Oppositional Platform – For Life” faction, and Roman Lozynskyi, a deputy from the “Holos” party. They both are members of the Committee of Verkhovna Rada on Organization of State Power, Lo...

OPORA analyzed publications of two hundred publics and identified the synchronized ones. Some pairs and groups are quite unexpected to find out.

OPORA continues the online streaming of the “Deputy Day” program. In the second episode on Friday, April, 3, Olga Aivazovska , chair of the board of the Civil Network OPORA, spoke with  Oleksandr Korniyenko, a deputy head of faction of the “Servant of the People” party, and  Alina Zahoruyko , a deputy head of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on organization of state power, local self-government and urban planning. They talked about the preparation to local elections, changes to the Electoral Code...

Civil Network OPORA hereby urges the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, the parliamentary committee on the organization of state power, regional development, local self-government, and urban planning to resume and intensify the electoral reform, and legislative preparation to the regular local elections in Ukraine.  The recent public and expert discussion of changes to the Electoral Code took place in the Committee on March, 10, and de facto terminated after the escalation of the epidemiological situ...

Ukrainian politicians run their campaigns in social media by making use of a loophole in electoral law.

Verkhovna Rada plans to switch committees to videoconferences and postpone regular plenary sessions until quarantine is over

Legislative authorities in different countries take the unprecedented preventive measures by introducing restrictions for journalists, observers, and the MPs alike. Some parliaments adopted decisions on the abridged procedures for debate, or even on the temporary suspension of their sittings. However, a key question the MPs are trying to answer is about their overall role during the counteraction to a large-scale social challenge. For the period of fighting the COVID-19, executive authorities...

Legal regulation is realized by the Constitution of Ukraine (hereinafter referred to as the Constitution, CU), the Law of Ukraine on the Legal State of Emergency (hereinafter - the Law) and the Code of Civil Protection of Ukraine (hereinafter - the Code) as well the Law of Ukraine on Protection of the Population Against Infectious Diseases, and the Law of Ukraine on Sanitary and Epidemic Well-Being. The Constitution of Ukraine mentions only environmental emergency situation.