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• Topics / Elections
Not Free Elections
01.06.2012
The Luhansk Regional Branch of the Committee of Voters of Ukraine reports that some State institutions are using their administrative resources and public funding to try to influence voters in favour of particular candidates in single-mandate electoral districts
Attempts to bribe voters already underway
31.05.2012
Olha Aivazovska, Head of the Civic Movement OPORA states clearly that although it is not bribery until the election campaign formally begins for potential parliamentary candidates to hand out gifts, food etc, it does infringe the standards for honest elections
Andriy Mahera: Without changes to electoral law, the results may be challenged in court
30.05.2012
The Deputy Head of the Central Election Commission [CEC] has told Radio Svoboda that if certain amendments to the Law on the Parliamentary Elections are not made, the results could be questioned in the courts
Prosecutor to intercede over arrest warrant on civic activist
26.05.2012
TheProsecutor General’s Office reports that the Rubizhne Prosecutor has applied to have the restraint measure against human rights activist Rimma Bilotserkivska changed to one not involving remand in custody
Parliamentary elections with limited access to information
26.05.2012
US journalist Zenon Zawada says that for the first time in 7 years he is extremely concerned over the issue of personal safety, and even feels some fear since he sees all the signs that the coming elections will be hard and brutal.
Arrest Warrant on Civic Activist and Likely Parliamentary Candidate
24.05.2012
Rimma Bilotserkivska who has an arrest warrant from 22 May hanging over her is not the criminal type. Nor is she in hiding which was effectively the “justification” for the latest court absurdity in a seemingly endless flow. The story is Kafkaesque, the order for her arrest all too real.
Majority electoral system hasn’t brought local deputies closer to their voters
23.05.2012
A survey in Kherson and Tsyurupynsk has found that the majority system used during the 2010 Local Elections has not achieved any greater connection between deputies and their voters although the results are still considerably better than in Donetsk .
Politician arrested over 4-year old case released on signed undertaking
22.05.2012
Zahid Krasnov, the Dnipropetrovsk politician and businessman who is planning to stand for parliament this year had spent a week in detention. The criminal case terminated in 2009 has been opened at the instigation of the Prosecutor General’s Office
Luhansk CVU informs of electoral law infringements
17.05.2012
The Committee of Voters of Ukraine believes that the examples presented demonstrate lack of will to run the elections in honest manner and already now raise question marks as to the legitimacy of the 28 October parliamentary elections.
Dnipropetrovsk politician Zahid Krasnov arrested over accident 4 years ago
14.05.2012
In Dnipropetrovsk well-known politician, leader of the NGO Hromadska Syla and businessman, Zahid Krasnov has been arrested over an accident which took place four years ago. He is understood to be planning to stand in October’s parliamentary elections
CVU: What to expect at the elections
14.05.2012
Head of the Committee of Voters of Ukraine [CVU] Oleksandr Chernenko considers the highly dubious divisions of electoral districts in some oblasts, the widespread corruption expected during the 2012 parliamentary elections because of the mixed single-mandate / party list system and more
Appeal in connection with CEC electoral district carve-up under examination
12.05.2012
As reported, in 2 major oblasts – Luhansk and Donetsk – the division has elicited concern that political considerations dictated the sometimes bizarre and illogical carving up of parts of the two regions
Resolutions incompatible with Democratic Choice
07.05.2012
Not only could the Central Election Commission’s Resolution No. 82 make observing the elections in two major regions – the Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts – more difficult, but it could also render observing in those regions a formality
Electoral Zigzags
01.05.2012
With electoral districts as formed by the Central Election Commission on 28 April requiring ballot papers to be transported from local precincts to the district commission via other electoral districts, it is difficult not to suspect that political considerations were at play.
OPORA critical of “atypical” geography and more in CEC electoral district distribution
01.05.2012
“Of concern are cases where one sees political motives in the creation of electoral districts with atypical configuration - where the formation of the district coincides with the previous political activeness of a candidate, or on the contrary, where a territory is unexpectedly split up where for a long time a candidate with high rating had been working”.
Central Election Commission rips Luhansk region into shreds
30.04.2012
The Luhansk Regional Branch of the Committee of Voters of Ukraine [CVU] reports that the Central Election Commission’s Resolution No. 82 on single-mandate electoral districts breaks all records for absurdity and puts a question mark over the election process in the Luhansk region
CEC Head: voting abroad according to majority system must be regulated
17.04.2012
The fact that the Constitutional Court’s judgement has restricted the electoral rights of over 450 thousand Ukrainians abroad will elicit criticism of the coming elections, or even their being declared illegitimate
CHESNO: Show us you have nothing to hide!
17.04.2012
In a campaign entitled “Filter the Verkhovna Rada”, over 500 NGOs who form part of the CHESNO movement are urging Ukraine’s leading political forces to consult with them in formulating future party candidate lists and putting forward candidates in single-mandate constituencies.
Overwhelming majority expect unfair elections
12.04.2012
The Razumkov Centre has published the results of a survey carried out to assess public opinion about the 2012 parliamentary elections 37% think the results could be rigged; with another 24% convinced that the results will be rigged.
Ukrainians abroad demand their full electoral rights reinstated
12.04.2012
We, the leaders of associations of Ukrainians of the fourth wave of emigration, are voicing our strong protest again the latest action of Ukrainian government, which using the so called “independent” Constitutional Court, deprived Ukrainian citizens living abroad from their right to elect single-mandate members of the Parliament during the upcoming October 2012 elections.
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