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2016

Ukraine

Local Elelctions in Ukraine: a view from outside

OPORA&CVU
Ukraine

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The purpose of this report is: (1) To review international standards on the right to universal and equal suffrage and find out if this right encompasses the corresponding rights of IDPs too; (2) To examine the practices of those countries which managed to ensure the right to political participation for IDPs and can be considered as best practices; (3) To compare positive and negative sides of those options used in other countries which enable IDPs to exercise their right to vote; (4) To elaborate some recommendations for solving the problem in Ukraine.

 

Ukraine

Local Elelctions in Ukraine: a view from outside. Arkadiy Liubarev

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Ukraine

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On October 25, Ukraine held elections to regional, district, city, town, and village councils, as well as elections of heads of cities, towns, and villages. Elections of regional, district, and city councils used what is, for Ukraine, a new version of the proportional election system, in which political party lists are divided into parts corresponding to territorial constituencies (equal to the number of mandates), and where each part may not include more than one candidate. Such a model created the illusion among voters that they are voting for specific candidates (as they would in the majority election system), while in reality their vote went primarily to political parties.