Civil Network OPORA - Election in Ukraine

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07 March 2019

Report on Alleged Use of Budget Resources for Indirect Campaigning (June, 2018 – January, 2019)

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05 March 2019

Second Report on OPORA's Observation Findings of 31 March 2019 Presidential Election

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21 February 2019

Results on Established District Election Commissions at the 2019 Presidential Elections: No Record Hitting But With Procedural Compliance

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13 February 2019

First report on OPORA's observation results of regular election of the President of Ukraine scheduled for 31 March 2019

On 31 December 2018, presidential election campaign has official started in Ukraine. Registration of candidates and campaigning are main stages of the race in January 2019. Observers of Civil Network OPORA continued to analyze situation with campaign in regions, activities of the Central Election Commission, and maintained communication with law-enforcement bodies, aimed to prevent and record violations of electoral legislation.

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08 January 2019

Early campaigning right before the official start of presidential election in Ukraine (December 2018)

In December 2018, OPORA continued monitoring pre-electoral situation in Ukrainian regions and analyzing early campaigning efforts of potential candidates and related political parties and organizations. Election observation of the Civil Network OPORA is a network activity, aimed at impartial assessment of the preparation and conduct of an election process. Observation goal is to identify key problems in the election process, create an evidence base and prevent violations through civic oversig...

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10 December 2018

Peculiarities of Early Campaigning in the Context of the Coming Official Start of Presidential Election in Ukraine (November, 2018)

In November, OPORA continued the monitoring of the pre-election situation in the regions of Ukraine, and analyzed the course and content of the early campaigning of prospective candidates and the related political parties and organizations. Civil observation of OPORA is a kind of proactive activities of the network intended to produce the unbiased evaluation of the preparation process and the conduct of election. The goal of the observation is identification of key challenges in the ele...

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06 December 2018

Report on Alleged Misuse of State Budget Resources for Indirect Campaigning (June - October)

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.

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20 November 2018

Overview of legislative and practical conditions for political impartiality of public officials and local self-government employees during regular election of the President of Ukraine

It is an important and not so easy task for a state to guarantee political impartiality of public officials

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14 September 2018

Interim Statement of Civic Network OPORA on the Conduct of Ukraine’s 2010 Local Elections

Local elections in Ukraine were not conducted in accordance with international standards and did not comply with good practices of election organization and conduct. OPORA bases its conclusion on long-term and short-term observation, the criteria and principles of democratic elections, as stated in documents of the Venice Commission, Copenhagen Committee the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). Both Ukrainian domestic and international observation missions should take i...

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10 September 2018

THE PROCESS OF UKRAINE'S IMPLEMENTATION OF RECOMMENDATIONS IN THE AREA OF ELECTIONS SUGGESTED BY INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL OBSERVATION MISSIONS, INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS, AND FOREIGN PARTNER COUNTRIES

On the eve of the official launch of the Presidential election campaign in Ukraine in December 2019, the Civil Network OPORA presents its preliminary analysis of Ukraine's compliance with the recommendations from national and international observation organizations, international non-governmental and intergovernmental organizations, the diplomatic representatives of the partner countries of Ukraine on elections. With the approach of elections crucial for the democratic development of the coun...

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29 October 2017

The dynamics of electoral violations is the same in the end of election day

The major problem in the end of the voting day is still the issuance of ballots without passport verification, despite the percentage of such incidents is much lower, reaching only 3.3% compared to the first half of the election day. In most cases, OPORA's observers prevented the commitment of such criminal offenses. However, even though independent observers respond to such violations, the illegitimate issuance of ballot papers is tolerated by election commissions. Moreover, there were even ...

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29 October 2017

As of 12:00 PM, OPORA detects procedural violations of electoral legislation by PECs

Observers of Civil Network OPORA continue watching the voting process and the functioning of precinct election commissions in the first local elections in united territorial communities. According to the data gathered by OPORA on the basis of statistically-based sampling as of 12:00 PM, the major violations detected by observers are attempts to issue ballots without passport verification. Thus, such incidents were detected at 7.4% of PECs (particularly in Sumy and Zhytomyr oblasts). Bal...