The beginning of election campaign in Chernihiv oblast: early campaigning, formation of TECs and districts

On 21 June, the candidate registration has finished for by-election of MPs. Thus, a record-breaking number of candidates have already registered for the upcoming 17 July 2016 by-election to the Parliament.

On 15 June 2016, a group of unidentified individuals used the force to restrict two OPORA's officially registered observers from entering a communal enterprise City Palace of Culture when self-nominated candidate Maksym Mykytas (SMD #206) was holding a campaigning event there. There were around 500 voters attending the event.

The Central Election Commission granted OPORA a permission to deploy official observers in by-election of MPs in single-member districts # 23, 27, 85, 114, 151, 183, and 206, scheduled for 17 July 2016.

It's almost 2 months of election campaign in district #205, and only 17 candidates are actively campaigning, including Hennadii Korban (UKROP party) and Serhii Berezenko (Petro Poroshenko Block party), whose campaigning efforts come along with numerous incidents having features of voter bribery, misuse of administrative resource, and violation of campaigning rules. Overall, the voters will have to choose from a record-breaking number of candidates – 91. OPORA condemns provocative and us...

As long as regular local elections are going to be held soon in Ukraine, by-election of an MP of Ukraine in single-member district #205 (Chernihiv) are quite significant to the state, which will have to prove that it can secure adherence to international and domestic electoral standards, as well as guarantee due legal response to law violations. After 2014 early parliamentary elections in Ukraine, when the certain progress in adherence to electoral standards was reached, Ukrainian state autho...

On 24 July 2015, at 12:30 p.m. in the UNIAN Information Agency (4 Khreshatyk St., Kyiv), a press-conference titled "Two days before the elections: situation in Chernihiv, electoral violations, and preliminary results of OPORA's monitoring campaign" will be held by the Civil Network OPORA.

  Today, a group of young men started a fight right at Expert Opinion press-center during press-conference of Oleh Liashko. According to the witnesses, men attacked MP candidate in district #205 Oleksii Durniev, who had argued with MP Oleh Liashko.  

  Headquarters of the MP candidate Serhii Berezenko, nominated by the Solidarity Petro Poroshenko Block in district #205 has been actively concluding so-called social agreements with Chernihiv citizens for already few months. Opponents of Serhii Berezenko, particularly Hennadii Korban, have repeatedly affirmed that Chernihiv citizens receive 400 UAH after signing a social agreement.  

  On 19 July, in the morning, the Patriot Chernihova newspaper without an imprint was distributed, containing information aimed to discredit activities of MP candidate Serhii Berezenko, nominated in SMD #205, and his headquarters.