8 territorial communities of Luhansk oblast do not participate in local elections

The fact of scheduling interim elections by the Central Election Commission in constituency 208 with the delayed publication of the decision in national media contains elements of free interpretation of electoral law and contradicts the previous election scheduling practices.

The Central Election Commission has adopted a new procedure for an election address change, which allows internally displaced persons to vote in local elections at their place of residence. This Central Election Commission took this decision on its May 18 meeting.

The Central Election Commission has announced it accepts propositions to the procedure of temporary change of voting location. Experts from the Civil Network OPORA have developed a number of improvements, which will further simplify this process for the voters.

The Central Election Commission has elected its senior executives at the first meeting held on October 4.

On September 14, the Servant of the People faction submitted 18 candidates for members of the Central Election Commission to the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi.

On September 13, the Verkhovna Rada voted to dissolve the Central Election Commission. 10 days after, only four factions submitted nominees for CEC members to the President. Moreover, only one of them did it within time constraints established by the law.

Today, on September 13, 2019, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine implemented a political agreement on early dissolution of the CEC. 341 MPs of Ukraine voted for this decision.

Early dissolution of the Central Election Commission is expected to happen in the coming days, given the informal presence of 300 votes in the Parliament. OPORA states that the highest election administration body has become a hostage to political situation over the last 15 years, when the regular and extraordinary rotations in the CEC took place, regardless of whether there are grounds to recognize it guilty in systemic gross violations or unlawful actions.

The Central Election Commission withdrew candidate for the President of Ukraine Serhii Kryvonis. The CEC passed the corresponding resolution on 7 November meeting.