Analytical information on October 25 president's public poll

In June, OPORA observers stated a rather high scale of activities of potential and registered candidates with signs of indirect vote buying. Participants of the election campaign or the charitable organizations related to them offered to voters either free or preferential goods and services, an also implemented infrastructure or social projects in their constituencies.  Focus of candidates on financial incentives to voters can jeopardize the environment for free expression of the will of citi...

In the period from June 2018 to January 2019 Civil Network OPORA’s observers recorded 1506 cases of using publicly-funded events for the purpose of indirect campaigning in favor of people’s deputies and political parties. In 75.2% of recorded cases those events were financed by means of subvention for socio-economic development of territories, in 5.1% of cases – from Road Fund, in 2.7% of cases – from State Fund for Regional Development. In the remaining 17% of recorded cases, those events we...