By-election of MP in SMD #205 (Chernihiv city) is another verification of Ukraine's ability to secure adherence to election process standards. This by-election will show whether positive changes in election administration were made or not before regular local elections, to be held in an extremely complicated social and political situation.  

Seeking election system change for local election, MPs of Ukraine failed to take into consideration that voting rights of internally displaced persons from Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts as well as AR Crimea and Sevastopol must be guaranteed. Draft Law on Local Elections #2831-3, adopted in the first reading, doesn't regulate this problem. Thus, Civil Network OPORA and Donetsk regional branch of the Committee of Voters of Ukraine All-Ukrainian NGO have cooperated with a group of MPs (Nataliia Ve...

We would like to present you a survey of the work done by three majoritarian MPs in Vinnytsia oblast: Oleksii Poroshenko (SMD #12), Ivan Melnychuk (SMD #14) and Ruslan Demchak (SMD #18).

On 2 July 2015, Ukraine's Parliament is planning to consider in the second reading the Law of Ukraine on Local Elections. It is important that the reformed Law on Local Elections should regulate participation of internally displaced persons in regular local election.

We would like to present you a survey of the work done by three majoritarian MPs in Ivano-Frankivsk oblast: Yurii Derevianko (SMD #87), Yurii Tymoshenko (SMD #88) and Yurii Solovei (SMD # 89).

We would like to present you a survey of the work done by three majoritarian MPs in Kyiv oblast: Oleksandr Marchenko (SMD #90), Oleksandr Onyshchenko (SMD #93) and Viktor Romaniuk (SMD # 94).

This report covers activities of three majoritarian MPs in Zakarpattia oblast: Robert Horvat (SMD #68), Vasyl Petiovka (SMD #72) and Ivan Baloha (SMD #73).

  Will open lists on local elections be real or fictitious? Will political advertising be banned on elections? How IDPs from Donetsk, Luhansk oblasts and Crimea are going to vote on local elections? These and other issues were discussed by participants of international conference “Has Electoral Reform Been Achieved in Ukraine?” held in Kyiv on 23 June, addressing the upcoming local elections scheduled for October.