The elections to the German Bundestag took place on September 22. The Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and Christian Social Union (CSU) jointly took the biggest percentage of votes for the last 20 years – 41.5%. Therefore, Angela Merkel will become a chancellor for the third time. This charismatic politician and a simple women in life had earned nearly 50,280,400 Euro during a singe election campaign. Of course, it's not her personal result, but local analysts affirm that her image and ra...

On September 24, the court hearing on the appeal of the Apparatus of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine against the resolution of Kyiv District Administrative Court passed on July 8, on administrative case brought by Civil Network OPORA regarding illegitimate actions of the Apparatus.

The Central Election Commission has refused to register an initiative group of the CPU calling for the holding of a nationwide referendum on Ukraine's accession to the Customs Union. All the CEC members present on the meeting voted in support of such resolution. According to the deputy Head of the CEC Andrii Mahera, initiators violated the Article 30 of the Law of Ukraine on National Referendum, which provides that initiators shall inform the Central Election Commission in written about...

As it's already known, election in five problematic districts were appointed for December 14, 2013 but the site of the Parliament provides another date – August 18. Verkhovna Rada's site contains the latest information on the Draft Law on reelection of MPs of Ukraine in single-mandate election districts #94, 132, 194, 197, 223. Today, there is information on the last stage of its consideration: The bill was sent to the President for his signature (9/11/2013). You can download the la...

Observing elections in Norway is like talking to a dog – interesting, but monotonous and predictable soon enough.There were incidents when campaigners of a party were disseminating its ballot papers near the polling station. Such actions do not violate electoral regulations. The country is very tolerant to the voters and helps to vote everyone

Deprivation of deputy mandates through the court can negatively affect Ukrainian parliamentarism in the future, – according to the expert poll conducted by the Civil Network OPORA. On September 12, the Higher Administrative Court has obliged the CEC to deprive MP of Ukraine Ihor Markov, who ran in district #133 in Odesa, of his mandate. Sometime earlier, on February 8, similar decision was taken on cases of majoritarian deputies Pavlo Baloha (district #71) and Oleksandr Dombrovskyi (distric...

On September 13, in Kyiv District Administrative Court, a preliminary hearing was held on the case of the European Party of Ukraine against the Communist Party of Ukraine and the Central Election Commission.

There were 6 Laws on parliamentary elections effective during the independence of Ukraine. Meanwhile, amendments and supplements to the effective legislation were introduced by 29 another Laws. The situation is obviously unstable. Besides that, such swings have improved neither the legislative base, nor the electoral system, which would help to prevent abuse of administrative resource and political corruption, or assist to the development of interparty democracy, nor the procedural part of th...