01 August 2018Oleksandr Kliuzhev, Vasyl Kosyi, Robert Lorian, Yurii LisovskyiThe stealing of elections in Kyiv oblast by the devil. Tale #2: The disappearance of carriageCan you feel certain that the winning candidate for deputy, whom you supported in the elections, will gain a deputy seat in local council? The correct answer is “of course you can’t”. We will tell the story how the political party was deprived of more than 100 votes in the process of allocation of deputy seats so as to prevent it from clearing...
01 August 2018Oleksandr Kliuzhev, Vasyl Kosyi, Robert Lorian, Yurii LisovskyiThe stealing of elections in Kyiv oblast by the devil. Tale #1: impersonation of the electIn November 2015, elections were stolen from the citizens of Kyiv oblast. “How elections could have been stolen?” – you'd ask. They were held, of course, but mandates were given not to the candidates who won them under this electoral system.
The topics of public discussion “How to guarantee a stable election process and voting rights in Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts”, held on 30 November in Kyiv, were the following: determination of clear criteria for impossibility of holding an election, the lack of information campaign concerning a change of voting location without changing of an election address, and the need to harmonize electoral legislation.
The budget administrative resource, which consists in using budget funds and means in favor of individual parties and candidates, is one of the most dangerous breaches of the electoral process standards. After all, the abuse of such a kind of administrative resource often occurs without any breach of the formal requirements of the law, but it has devastating consequences for the competitiveness of the election.
The Central Election Commission recommended territorial election commissions, which administer local elections in Vinnytsia, Donetsk, Zaporizhia, Luhansk, Mykolaiv, Odesa, Sumy, Kharkiv, Kherson and Chernihiv oblasts to guarantee a mandatory requirement of the Law of Ukraine on Legal Regime under Martial Law and stop organization and conduct of the first, additional and by-elections.
The Central Election Commission drew attention of electoral subjects in 10 oblasts, where the President imposed martial law, that the election process is prohibited according to the Law on Legal Regime under Martial Law.
In November, potential candidates for the President of Ukraine have been active in their public activities accompanied by various forms of campaigning in 18 of 25 regions of Ukraine. This information was shared on 29 November press-conference by Head of the Board of Civil Network OPORA Olha Aivazovska and OPORA's analysts Oleksandr Kliuzhev and Oleksandr Neberykut.
Despite there is too little time to complete a comprehensive electoral reform and change the rules of play before a number of election campaigns, experts forecast the victory to pro-European political parties in Ukraine. This was discussed on a yearly conference “Kyiv Dialog” in Berlin on October 16.
259 of 382 heads of raion state administrations are unaffiliated. 123 heads are members of political parties. These are the results of a research made by Civil Network OPORA concerning party affiliation of heads at raion state administrations. However, we have managed to get official information about 382 persons, and the information about 62 heads is still unavailable.
The Central Election Commission is ready to realize draft law #6240 on Amendment of Some Laws of Ukraine (concerning the voting rights of internally displaced persons and other internal mobile groups of citizens) if the Verkhovna Rada adopts it. Such statement was made by Deputy Head of the CEC Yevhen Radchenko on 13 November press-conference.
Representatives of non-governmental organizations have discussed on 13 November meeting with Central Election Commission members the possibility of creating an expert council with involvement of NGOs, cyber security, publication of election data in machine readable format, trainings for commission members, organization of a hot line, and live broadcasts of commission meetings.
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