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• Topics / Elections
Why early elections are our democratic right
05.04.2007
"The recent attempts through venal means to gain a constitutional majority, enabling the coalition to overcome any Presidential veto and even change the Constitution make a mockery of democracy and seriously distort the electoral results from the 2006 parliamentary elections".
Political parties have already forgotten about defending human rights
22.03.2007
Once they got into parliament, political parties promptly forgot their pre-election promises in human rights-related areas. This was one of the main conclusions presented by the Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union [UHHRU] at todays press conference on the results of their monitoring
The Presidents signing of the Law on the State Register of Voters welcomed
20.03.2007
The Committee of Voters of Ukraine is pleased that the President has signed the Law on the State Register of Voters. The law was passed in February, in compliance with recommendations from the Council of Europe Venice Commission
Committee of Voters of Ukraine has begun a petition against the “imperative mandate”
16.02.2007
The CVU believes that the new law considerably strengthens the influence of the party leadership on tens of thousands of deputies of local councils and effectively makes them dependent on the will of several individuals.
The Prosecutor General of Ukraine has submitted to the courts another case involving vote rigging in Mukachevo
04.08.2006
Constitutional aspects regarding the formation of coalitions in the Ukrainian Parliament
18.07.2006
The analysis points to irregularities in the recent changes in coalition partners and gives a damning assessment both of the results of the "political reform" (constitutional amendments), and of the general level of the countrys parliamentarians
On the possibility of terminating the authority of the Verkhovna Rada: A constitutional analysis
17.07.2006
The author considers the pros & cons, and constitutional grounds for various ways around the present crisis in the Verkhovna Rada
The Law on the elections … and torture?
04.06.2006
The author points to grave violations of Ukraines labour laws in the conditions imposed on district electoral commission members, and to the dangers of such a workload
Penal settlements and the elections
03.06.2006
The author points to logical inconsistencies in the voting rights of convicted prisoners, as well as to the obvious lack of the components of free and fair elections in Ukrainian penal institutions
Odessa: corruption and the 2006 elections
03.06.2006
A depressing number of corrupt mechanisms show, the author believes, that the recent elections did not differ as radically from those of the recent past as one might have hoped
Infringements of freedom of expression during the 2006 election campaign
10.03.2006
Ironically electoral legislation perhaps intended to avoid some of the abuses under the previous regime has led to a conflict of rights and, increasingly, to worrying restrictions on the right to freedom of expression and the right of voters to receive information of public significance
The Pechersky District Courts Resolution of 10.02.06
10.03.2006
The full Resolution on the suit brought by Natalya Vitrenko against the Minister of Internal Affairs, Yury Lutsenko, alleging involvement in pre-election campaigning
Deputy Mayor exposed as a vote-rigger in the Mykolaiv region
11.11.2005
The deputy mayor of a town in the Mykolaiv region has been exposed for rigging voting papers during the second round of Presidential elections.
How Yushchenkos words were interpreted in Artemovsk
12.10.2005
The prosecutors office of the Trostianets district of the Sumy region has completed the investigation of the criminal case against the head of the joint-stock company “Spartak”, who is accused of brutal violation of election laws
Prosecutors office of the Lugansk region instituted 143 criminal cases on brutal violations of election laws
14.09.2005
Investigation of most of these cases is already completed and the criminal cases have been passed to courts for consideration. The most frequent violations of election laws are: illegal use of voting bulletins, forgery of electoral documents, incorrect calculation of votes or incorrect announcement of results of the election.
23 cases on falsifications of election were instituted in the Crimea
17.08.2005
In June the prosecutors office of the Crimea directed to court five criminal cases connected with violations of laws on election of the President of Ukraine in the course of the election campaign on the peninsula
One million hryvnas were spent for bribes in the Sumy region during the election
17.08.2005
Oleksandr Gorban, the prosecutor of the Sumy region, informs that about one million hryvnas, spent for bribes to the heads of election commissions has been disclosed in the course of investigation of the criminal cases connected with violations during the presidential election
Investigation of cases, instituted after the facts of crimes committed in the course of presidential election campaign, continues
17.08.2005
The prosecutors office of the Dnepropetrovsk region has passed to court the criminal case against a member of district election commission No. 1 of election circuit No. 34, who falsified the lists of voters
Court condemned violators to 3 and 4 years of incarceration with the probation term
17.08.2005
The Goloseyevskiy district court of Kyiv condemned three persons, who had voted repeatedly with the off-list tickets at the Presidential election-2004, to 3 and 4 years of deprivation of liberty with 2 years of the probation term
Three more officials-falsifiers were unmasked in the Nikolayev region
17.08.2005
A criminal case has been instituted in the Nikolayev region in connection with the crimes envisaged by part 1 of Article 364 and part 2 of Article 158 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (misuse of power or service status, illegal use of election bulletins, forgery of election documents, incorrect calculation of votes or incorrect announcement of the results of election) against two officials of the Nikolayev regional state administration and an official of the Oktiabrsky district state administration
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