The Parliament has a number of legislative initiatives registered, which were negatively assessed by the expert environment as restricting human rights in the certain regulations.

Ukraine will have to search for its own solutions to organization and conduct of local elections in case of having them under the quarantine, to think up a number of measures intended to minimize the risks, but all of it will bump into finance which resources are largely limited today.

On December 19, 2019, after eight years of consultations and negotiations between political actors, civil society, and the expert community, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine finally adopted a new election code. The final version of the code largely reflects recommendations proposed by civil society and election experts to ensure human rights and facilitate the political participation of various stakeholder groups, including IDPs and other internally “mobile” groups of citizens, voters with disab...

On December 19, 2019, after eight years of consultations and negotiations between political actors, civil society, and the expert community, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine finally adopted a new election code. The final version of the code largely reflects recommendations proposed by civil society and election experts to ensure human rights and facilitate the political participation of various stakeholder groups, including IDPs and other internally “mobile” groups of citizens, voters with disab...

Today, on April 16, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine plans to consider on its extraordinary sitting the Draft Law of Ukraine on Countering the Abuse of Parliamentary Powers in Law-Making (#1043). In particular, it introduces a special procedure for consideration of draft laws in the second reading. On the one hand, it is an attempt to introduce a mechanism against the "legislative spam", i.e. when MPs abuse their rights to make proposals to draft laws. On the other hand, such measures should be ...

On December 19, 2019, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted into law the Election Code of Ukraine. Its adoption and the entering into force of most of its provisions already in January 2020 marked an important step towards the harmonization of the legal framework for elections in Ukraine in line with the recommendations of international and domestic election observer missions.

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.