Managing positions (Head, Deputy Heads, and Secretaries) of the DECs were taken by 4 representatives of the AUU Batkivshchyna, 2 of the UDAR, and 1 of the Party of Regions. The other representatives belong to the parties with no representation in the Parliament. All 5 commissions have 18 members each.

Apparatus of the Verkhovna Rada has filed a cassation against the case regarding OPORA’s access to its manning table.

The Central Election Commission has allowed Civil Network OPORA to deploy official observers during re-election of MPs of Ukraine on December 15 this year. All 13 members of the CEC who attended the meeting have supported this decision.

On October 16, 2013 Civil Network OPORA has launched a large-scale monitoring campaign in 5 problematic districts, which includes long- and short-term observation. The organization will attract more than 600 activists to conduct the parallel vote tabulation and qualitative observation during the Election Day. OPORA will systematically inform the public about the course of election campaign, as well as whether subjects of the election process observe the electoral legislation, officials partic...

Although electoral legislation and procedural guarantees of its application influence the future election campaign to the certain extent, main factors which can jeopardize the election process and results are the following: 1) officials who abuse their powers and illegally participate in the election campaign; 2) increased impact of financial resources during short special election campaigns; 3) widely spread practice of registering technical candidates in order to create imbalance of powers ...

4 of 12 adopted laws pertaining to Eu-integration matters were not supported by the Communist Party of Ukraine, 2 by the AUU Batkivshchyna and 2 by UDAR; AUU Svoboda failed to support 1 law. The Party of Regions and non-faction MPs voted for all the laws unanimously. Such data were received by the Civil Network OPORA after analyzing how the factions voted for EU-integration laws.

Civil Network OPORA has presented a site rada.oporaua.org, aimed to increase citizen awareness of parliamentary activities, and to ease journalists' efforts when preparing materials. The event was held in the Chasopys creative space on October 14.

When MPs are talking about budget costs, their words may differ from their thoughts. It can be proved by various slips of the tongue made by deputies and voting results on the particular issues of the last meeting of the Budget Committee.