Authorities in Cherkasy city traditionally continue fighting against the peaceful gatherings in a special manner.

The Head of Zmiyiv Rayon State Administration and the Deputy of Kharkiv Oblast Council, Yevgeniy Murayev is a potential majoritarian candidate from the Party of Regions in Zmiyiv region. Like all other potential candidates he has virtually started his election campaign. 

As reported by Nataliia Starikova, the Deputy Head of the United opposition campaign office in Cherkasy region, to reach transparency and objectivity of the elections they plan to record all the violations during the election campaign 2012 in Cherkasy oblast. This initiative emerged after a number of typical election law violations were recorded.

After working for a long time in the voting district # 165 in Ternopil region, former Head of the Security Service of Ukraine and Our Ukraine party Valentyn Nalyvaichenko has all chances to become a deputy from the UDAR party. This information is spread by the mass media and is refuted neither in Nalyvaichenko’s close circles nor in the UDAR.

Valeriy Romanov, famous human rights activist and founder of the nongovernmental organization Fair Kryvbas Movement in Kryvyi Rih, informed representatives of OPORA about the warnings his opponents directed against him. They threatened him that he will not get to the voting list of Ukraine – Forward party. The activist was told that the Party of Regions has its own person, who has influence on the list formation of Korolevska.

The election headquarters of the Radical Party started to work in Kryvyi Rih. The fact that oblast headquarters was opened outside the oblast center became the only case recorded by the observers from OPORA in Dnipropetrovsk oblast since the observation campaign of Parliamentary elections 2012 was launched.

Ivano-Frankivsk oblast organization of Our Ukraine party is one of the biggest debtors who do not pay the salaries in Prykarpattya. Currently the debt makes up 576 000 UAH and the employees of Our Ukraine party face this situation for the third year already. Despite the appeal of Viktor Yushchenko to the heads of oblast organizations to pay all the salaries to the employees of their executive committees the then Head of Our Ukraine party Zinovii Shkutiak has not yet repaid the debt.

On 19 April the CEC took a decision on the procedure of casting lots for distribution of seats in District election commissions (DECs) for Ukrainian Parliamentary elections on 28 October 2012. The procedure considerably differs from those used during parliamentary campaigns of 1998-2006. On previous Parliamentary elections drawing of lots was conducted separately for each DEC. The procedure secured the principle of equal opportunities for political parties and candidates. This year, vacant po...