Local elections: issues in candidate registration and poorly regulated gender quota requirements
According to OPORA's calculations, 122 of 142 local cells of political parties, which passed the corresponding decisions on participation in local elections, have nominated and registered their candidates. Thus, 9 parties have nominated the highest number of candidates to local councils – approximately from 10 to almost 28 thousand. However, 96 political parties have nominated less than 1 thousand candidates. Only Petro Poroshenko Bloc 'Solidarity', Agrarian Party of Ukraine, and ...