Future candidates for deputies are keeping the electorate informed about their actions and activities of their charitable funds not only with the help of already existing state and private mass media, but also through their own newspapers, created specially "for the election period".
Thus, Viktor Zherebniuk, the potential candidate in district #14 centered in Zhmerynka city, has initiated "non-periodical" - a newspaper "Zemliaky" ("Fellow countryman"). Yet, his competitor Hryhorii Zabolotnyi (a potential candidate in district #17) is heading the NGO "Zemliaky" and also issues a newspaper with the same name
Oksana Kalentik, a potential candidate in district #16 centered in Yampol city, issues a newspaper "Batkivska Zemlia" ("Fatherland"), and is leading the NGO of the same name.
A potential candidate in district #18 centered in Illintsi city, Ruslan Demchak, began publishing a newspaper "Zhyttia Vinnychyny" ("Life in Vinnytsia region"), which design and name are similar to those published by Vinnytsia oblast council - "Vinnychyna".
A newspaper of oblast council deputy from the Front for Change, Serhii Kudlaienko, (district #11, Vinnytsia city) with the name "Chas Zmin" ("Time for Change"), is being put in mailboxes and distributed on the streets for some time already. To sustain readers' interest, they try to add to the information about candidates some helpful tips, recipes, interestingness, gardener calendars.
For comment, please contact:
Nataliia Velychko
Coordinator of electoral programs of the Civil Network OPORA
in Vinnytsia office
063 628 67 85
Halyna Seheda
press secretary
097 705 23 66
Reference:
Civic monitoring conducted by OPORA - is a type of network activity, aimed at impartial assessment of the preparation and conduct of elections, as well as preventing violations through comprehensive civic action. Professional monitoring at all stages of the election process indirectly influences the quality of the campaign. The public opinion, both foreign and domestic is formed through gathering and spreading of information among the target audience. From a strategic perspective public monitoring of elections focuses upon improving the system and certain procedures. In 2012, during Parliamentary elections in Ukraine OPORA implements a large-scale campaign of long- and short term observation, organizes a statistical vote-count by the results of voting with the proportional component of the electoral system on a basis of representative selection, will provide 100% coverage of polling stations by observers in separate single-mandate majoritarian districts. OPORA observers will work in all 225 electoral districts, and 3,500 activists will join them on the voting day. Organization will use the latest means of spreading information on observation results, including infographics and interactive maps.