The Committee of Voters of Ukraine (CVU) is the all-Ukrainian NGO that has been performing comprehensive monitoring of election campaigns in Ukraine in terms of observance of the national legislation and international standards of fair and democratic election by all stakeholders for 15 years. Since September 2009, CVU has been monitoring preparation to and conduction of the Presidential election campaign in Ukraine. They monitored the electoral campaign, operation of the Central, constituency and polling station commissions, activities of election HQs, central and local authorities.

The Committee of Voters of Ukraine (CVU) is the all-Ukrainian NGO that has been performing comprehensive monitoring of election campaigns in Ukraine in terms of observance of the national legislation and international standards of fair and democratic election by all stakeholders for 15 years. In November, CVU observed preparations of the legislative changes, the campaign developments, formation and initial activities of election commissions.

The Committee of Voters of Ukraine (CVU) is the all-Ukrainian NGO that has been performing comprehensive monitoring of election campaigns in Ukraine in terms of observance of the national legislation and international standards of fair and democratic election by all stakeholders for 15 years. In August and early September, CVU analyzed the legal basis of campaign and launched monitoring of preparation to the election in all regions of Ukraine.

In April 2009, the CVU leadership changed. Upon transfer of Ihor Popov, Chairman of the CVU Board, to public service, Oleksandr Chernenko was elected the new head of the organization

Over the period under report, CVU implemented the number of projects.

On 15th of March 2009 early local elections were conducted in 85 administrative units of 23 regions of Ukraine. The largest number of candidates was nominated by Yedynyj Center, BYuT and the Party of Regions. The Committee of Voters of Ukraine (CVU) was conducting general monitoring of the process. A special attention of CVU observers was attracted to Ternopil oblast Council elections and Rozdilna city mayor elections (Odessa oblast). 5 CVU mobile groups were working in Ternopil oblast during the Election Day.

On October 16, CVU Executive Director Ye. Poberezhnyi presented the CVU report on results of monitoring of good governance standards and principles in Ukraine at the forum European Benchmarks of Local and Regional Development.

Committee of voters of Ukraine has been conducting monitoring of MPs’ activities for several years. The monitoring includes quantitative and qualitative analysis of legislative activities of people’s deputies, fulfillment of pre-election promises, and analysis of direct communication with voters. CVU obtained information for the research from open sources: official web-site of Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, all-Ukrainian and local mass media outlets, MPs’ answers on CVU inquires and personal meetings with MPs.

According to CVU estimations, a political crisis in Ukraine has two real solutions: creation of Party of regions-Yulia Tymoshenko’s Block or early parliamentary elections. In the first variant, many voters will regard PR-BYuT block coalition as a revision of election results and perversion of 2007 will expression. Yulia Tymoshenko’s Block will inevitably suffer staff and electorate losses in Western and Central regions. Therefore, CVU predicts height probability of early parliamentary elections and considers such elections as the most honest and fair solution of the present-day situation.

In view of deepening political crisis in Ukraine and increasing probability of early parliamentary elections more and more appeals for raising the barrier are made. The most ambitious initiatives propose to raise the barrier up to 10 per cent.

20 July, 2008 a meeting on election-related issues was held in Vienna, Austria. Yevgen Poberezhny, Committee of voters of Ukraine executive director, took part in the meeting together with domestic election observers organizations’ representatives from different countries.

The mandatory general external independent evaluation (testing) of school graduates in 11 subjects was held in Ukraine for the fist time from April 22 to June 4. More than 500 thousands of graduates took part in the EIE. Evaluation was arranged by more than 1,800 testing offices in all regions.

Voting and vote tabulation procedures were free and transparent; observers and reporters had got full access to all election procedures. CVU welcomes the great number of representatives from candidates at polling stations.

The CVU considers the Kyiv mayor and Kyiv city council election campaign to be transparent and competitive, although poorly organized and unfair to voters. Parties were not ready to form election commissions; they breached organizational deadlines and individual procedures.

From the official start of Kyiv mayor and Kyiv city council election campaign, the CVU began comprehensive monitoring of the election process. The present paper covers the course of election campaign for the period 15 April – 15 May, particularly polling stations commissions’ formation, and propaganda campaign.

From the official start of Kyiv mayor and Kyiv city council election campaign, the CVU began comprehensive monitoring of the election process. The present paper covers the course of election campaign for the period 26 March – 16 April, particularly candidates’ registration, polling stations’ establishment and agitation campaign.