Joint Opinion on the Draft Law on Election of People’s Deputies of Ukraine
On 23 June 2011 the Minister of Justice of Ukraine, Mr Oleksandr Lavrynovych, requested the Venice Commission and OSCE/ODIHR to comment on the text of the draft Law of Ukraine on Election of the People’s Deputies of Ukraine (Doc. CDL-REF
(2011) 034) hereinafter, the “draft law”). The draft law was prepared by the Working Group on reforming and codifying the electoral legal framework with the aim to bring it in line with democratic standards following the presidential decree of 2 November 2010. The Working Group consists of representatives of different state institutions, parliamentarians, civil society representatives, academics and domestic legal and constitutional experts. Invitations to the working group meetings were also made to international experts.
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