Money in Politics. Compilation of Databases and Cases is a Key power of a Non-Governmental Organization to Increase Accountability of Candidates During Elections

Media is an important component of the election process in any democratic country. The new Law on Media had provisions regulating the information space during elections.  Earlier, OPORA has repeatedly explained why the day of silence is an outdated phenomenon and does not take into account the current realities of the election process.

During the first summer month, the pages of Ukrainian politicians and parties, and the accounts related to politics, shared 11,257 promoted posts. The total investment into promotion of political content was from USD 209,126 to 317,234*. Over the same period of the previous year, according to Facebook Ad Library Report, all numbers were lower: the political PR with the help of Facebook ads cost from USD 178,933 to 273,973. Although the political ads labelling rules have been introduced by Fac...

The network of 19 pages, at least 55 alleged bots bombarded Dnipro voters during the 2020 local elections campaigns, either supporting Borys Filatov and the “Proposition” party or discrediting his political rival Zahid Krasnov.

Local authorities still have the time to implement the protection standards against COVID-19 in elections, regardless of current differences in protection means supply at election commissions and polling stations in communities. As for public activities of parties and candidates, we regret to say that typical abuses and violations of electoral standards were present, and have negatively impacted the competitiveness of election process. This information was presented by representatives of Civi...

About 20 candidates are running for the position of a city mayor of Kyiv, both self-nominated, and party-promoted. In addition to advertisements in the streets and leaflets in mail boxes, most of them were trying to win voters’ support through campaigning in social media, such as Facebook. According to OPORA monitoring, Kyiv candidates are most active in this social media: they share campaigning materials from their own pages, from party pages, and from anonymous profiles alike. In this artic...