Subventions-2020. What’s the Allocation of Funds in the Run-up to Local Elections?

OPORA has been researching the distribution of state subventions for social and economic development between single-member district in Ukraine for four years already. Based on data analysis for 2016-2019, political factors are influencing the administration of state subventions, and they are distributed nontransparently and unevenly between different regions and districts within the same oblast. In addition, the subvention itself has become an instrument which the government uses to ensure th...

The Ministry of Finance says that the order, which obliges to return unused state subvention funds, is restricted "for official use" and, therefore, is not available to the public. This is the answer Civil Network OPORA received to its information request.

According to the results of 21 July 2019 parliamentary elections, 33 MPs, who used budget resources for personal media and campaigning purposes, have been re-elected to the Parliament. Three of them were in TOP-12 of MPs who have used state subvention funds for campaigning purposes.