Petro Poroshenko is one of the most active users of promotion instruments on Facebook; Prosecutor General's Office is seeking new staff and advertisers are mostly ignoring the eastern and southern regions of Ukraine, - OPORA continues to analyse activities on public pages writing about politics on Facebook and Instagram.

Civil Network OPORA has been monitoring the distribution of subventions on social and economic development, allocated from the state budget for a few years in a row. We also wrote about MPs striving to get re-elected into the Parliament using budget funds. In this article we have analyzed how subventions from oblast budgets and the budget of Kyiv are distributed between local councillors to finance the realization of voter requests.

Civil Network OPORA hereby welcomes the efforts of Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine to build a dialogue and reach a compromise on the Electoral Code. Political legitimacy of the law is an important element of building public trust to the institute of elections.

The Election Code suggests to use an open-list proportional representation system for organization of parliamentary elections in Ukraine. Voters will be able to vote for a party and, additionally, for a certain candidate in regional list of this party. Only parties that overcome the 5% national threshold will be eligible to participate in the distribution of parliamentary seats.

The State Budget of Ukraine provides significant subventions for regional social and economic development each year. This year, like two previous ones, the State Budget budgeted 5 billion UAH on subventions. However, taking into consideration the imperfection of subvention distribution process, two election campaigns, and the change of both state leaders and ⅘ of majoritarian MPs, only 2 billion 728 million UAH were spent (55%). Moreover, the Government had even passed in late September a str...

MPs from the AUU Batkivshchyna and the Opposition Platform - For Life missed the biggest number of votings in the session hall over 100 days of Verkhovna Rada's work. Thus, Vitalii Danilov (Batkivshchyna) was absent at 71.3% of parliamentary sessions, Serhii Taruta (Batkivshchyna) - 68.5%, Vadym Rabinovych (Opposition Platform - For Life) - 66.1%.

The Parliament of IX convocation has had 100 days in power on December 6. Thus, MPs have registered 885 bills over this period of time, 94 of which were adopted. They have pressed the voting button almost 500,000 times. There are faction leaders among "rebels", and the faction in power excluded three MPs from the party.

Peculiarities of electoral system for parliamentary elections