On the eve of the voting day: preliminary observation summary by OPORA
Since the beginning of the election campaign, OPORA has detected 668 violations, mostly violation of campaigning rules (380 violations) and voter bribery (193), as of 22 October. Despite there were some cases of administrative resource abuse, it wasn't neither wide scale, nor systematical. Only 12 of 132 political parties participating in local elections organized active campaigning efforts in two and more oblasts. Poorly thought out regulations, lack of uniformity in their application...