Civil Network OPORA calls on the Committee for Organization of Public Administration to summon an additional meeting in order to eliminate critical shortcomings in the text of Electoral Code before its second review in the Parliament. The provisional voting for the document is planned in the Verkhovna Rada during the plenary week of December, 3 - 6.

Before the review of the Electoral Code in the second reading, Civil Network OPORA hereby accentuates the focus of the people’s deputies of Ukraine on the need to provide for full conformity of its provisions with the democratic standards of elections and the Constitution of Ukraine.

On November 6, Panel Discussion on the Role of Citizen Election Observation in Promoting Electoral Integrity was held at the European Parliament. Olha Aivazovska represented Civil Network OPORA and took the floor.​​​​​​​

The Central Election Commission has announced it accepts propositions to the procedure of temporary change of voting location. Experts from the Civil Network OPORA have developed a number of improvements, which will further simplify this process for the voters.

Civil Network OPORA is not going to observe the elections to village, settlement and city councils, as well as of the corresponding village, settlement and city heads in united territorial communities, scheduled for December 2019.

OPORA has been researching the distribution of state subventions for social and economic development between single-member district in Ukraine for four years already. Based on data analysis for 2016-2019, political factors are influencing the administration of state subventions, and they are distributed nontransparently and unevenly between different regions and districts within the same oblast. In addition, the subvention itself has become an instrument which the government uses to ensure th...

Elections in Donbas are to be held. Sooner or later, under the Minsk Agreements or otherwise, if, of course, the authorities and society seek to return territories and people.

Civil Network OPORA had been conducting an expert poll from August 26 to September 26, 2019, dedicated to administrative resource in prisons during the last presidential and parliamentary elections. Our main goal was to find out the opinion of the human rights environment on whether the voting in prisons was free, to identify problems in organization of the voting process in prisons and typical violations there. The poll summarizes assessments from human rights defenders and OPORA's electoral...