Showing posts with label Congress of Local and Regional Authorities. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Congress of Local and Regional Authorities. Show all posts

Tuesday, 2 November 2010

Ukraine Urged To Improve Electoral Legislation

Members of a Council of Europe monitoring delegation have expressed concern at a "hastily drafted" electoral law for local and regional elections passed by the Ukrainian Parliament.

The Congress of Local and Regional Authorities group claimed that the law, passed several weeks before the elections were held.led to shortcomings with regard to the registration of candidates, the composition of electoral commissions, the organisational and the counting of votes on election night.