Adoption of the Electoral Code as the Next Stage in Evolution of the Rules for Electing People’s Deputies of Ukraine
- Institution: Rzeszów School of Higher Education
- ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3338-9836
- Year of publication: 2020
- Source: Show
- Pages: 325-337
- DOI Address: https://doi.org/10.15804/ppk.2020.05.24
- PDF: ppk/57/ppk5724.pdf
After the adoption of the Electoral Code, the Ukrainian electoral system entered a new state of evolution. The paper presents the basic principles of electing People’s Deputies on the basis of the Electoral Code with regard to the earlier stages of changes in Ukrainian electoral law. The Polish literature has not dealt analytically with these solutions so far. Probably the time will come when they will be implemented. The author’s intention is to describe the characteristics of the Code in the part concerning the election of popular deputies. The President of Ukraine’s proposal to amend Art. 76 and 77 of the Constitution providing for the reduction of the number of deputies to 300, the introduction of censorship for speaking the mother tongue as a condition for running for the Verkhovna Rada and the constitutionalization of a proportional electoral system indicate that the process of shaping the principles of electing People’s Deputies in Ukraine is not yet complete.