On 13 October at 11:30 a.m., Civil Network OPORA holds a press conference dedicated to the second round of mayoral election. The event will be held in the UNIAN Information Agency (4 Khreshatyk St., Kyiv).

Civil Network OPORA calls on the President of Ukraine, parliamentary factions and groups of MPs in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine to follow the principles of professionalism and political impartiality, and avoid the conflict of interests when selecting candidates for members of the CEC. New CEC should become an independent and unbiased body and increase public trust to the election process. We are convinced that each candidate for member of the CEC should conduct public presentations and debat...

On 15 November 2015, the second round of mayoral elections in 29 cities will be held in Ukraine. Who participates in the second round in your city? Use OPORA's interactive map to get this information.

Would you like to know how many votes the certain mayoral candidate or a political party has gained at a polling station? Would you like to see independent alternative ratings in the end of election race? OPORA invites you to take a look at a new information system based on the parallel vote tabulation for city mayor and councils elections in Kharkiv, Odesa and Dnipropetrovsk.

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What kind of punishment is imposed for voting rights violations? Who might get into a jail and for what? OPORA has prepared a 30-minute video to give you a chance take conscious decision.On 15 November 2015, the second round of mayoral election is to be held in cities having over 90 thousand voters, where none of the candidates took 50% +1 vote in the first round on 25 October.As of 3 November, OPORA has already detected 1332 violations during the local election campaign. It should be mention...

Today, on 30 October, village, settlement and city election commissions should approve the elected heads on the basis of tabulation protocols on the results of village, settlement and city heads elections, schedule the second round or recognize the election as not held. Oblast, city and raion in city TECs are obliged to recognize election outcomes in multi-mandate election district till 4 November.

On 27 October 2015, the Central Election Commission passed a Resolution #515 on Explanations concerning application of some regulations of the Law of Ukraine on Local Elections when determining the voting results in mayoral election. According to the Explanations, the second round shall not be conducted if information about application of absolute majority system in mayoral election was announced within the established time constraints, but the number of voters in voter lists at polling stati...