The Central Election Commission established the lack of legal grounds to register Vasyl Virastiuk as a people’s deputy for constituency No 87. It was discussed at the CEC session on May, 5, 2021.

A month after the vote at the interim elections of people’s deputies in constituencies No 87 (Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast) and No 50 (Donetsk Oblast), the CEC website posted only a part of final financial reports of candidates in constituency No 87; while the National Agency for Corruption Prevention had some of the reports from constituency No 50.OPORA counted the costs for political ads on the social media of Facebook incurred by candidates in both constituencies. Below, we analyze whether the d...

The Law of Ukraine “On Elections of People’s Deputies of Ukraine” applicable for the interim elections of the members of Parliament foresaw the establishment of results by April, 12, 2021, inclusive. The terms were successfully followed in constituency No 50 (Pokrovsk, Donetsk Oblast), whereas in constituency No 87 (Nadvirna, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast) the process of establishing voting results has been largely delayed because of court proceedings about the violations and DEC decisions.

Enhanced requirements to the CMA opinion (changes to the Law of Ukraine “On Civil Military Administrations”) The opinion of the civil and military administration on the impossibility to organize elections must include the following items:

From October, 2020 to March, 2021, the network of civic ombudsmen for electoral rights of the Civil Network OPORA was running a survey on participation of women in the 2020 local elections, such as about the effects of the mandatory gender quota in the elections on a better access of women to decision-making.

Yesterday, on April, 8, the Constitutional Court of Ukraine held they would consider in full session and in oral argument the claim from 45 people’s deputies on the constitutionality of the cancellation of self-nomination and the majoritarian electoral system. The hearing date will be informed further.

OPORA hereby states the failure to ensure the right of voters for lawful and fair establishment of their voting results in a single-member constituency No 87 at elections of a people’s deputy of Ukraine.

The situation with the establishment of voting results at the interim elections of people’s deputies in constituency 87 has stirred much of public interest. In fact, the district commission sent back for the re-count 20 election commissions; the voting results at two polling stations were declared invalid; the incompliance was identified between the protocol data and the re-count outcomes at three polling stations; at one polling station with several dozens of missing ballots the decision has...