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Ensuring that law-enforcement bodies investigate allegations of payments from candidates and parties to commissioners.

Introducing additional mechanisms for recruitment of election commission members, such as professional selection criteria, compulsory training, a national register and higher remuneration.

Continuing the reform of the electoral legal framework, in an open and inclusive manner, to address remaining gaps, errors, and conflicting and ambiguous formulations.

The report offers 39 recommendations to improve the conduct of elections and increase the transparency of and public confidence in the electoral process. These were some of the main conclusions from the final report on the elections held on 25 October 2020, as published by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR). To help you understand this important electoral process, the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) provides Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) on Elections in Ukraine: 2020 Local Elections.The 2020 Ukraine local elections were effectively organized amid the COVID-19 pandemic and proved more inclusive, but further improvements are required to strengthen the capacity of the election administration and oversight of campaign rules, including related to campaign financing and media coverage. This has the potential to enfranchise millions of new voters and allow them to shape decision-making in their local communities. Importantly, for the first time, citizens who have been internally displaced by conflict, and internal migrants, will be able to vote in local elections where they actually live. They are also the first nationwide local elections to be held following President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s transition of power in 2019. The 2020 elections will mark the completion of a decentralization reform process and significantly differ from the 2015 local elections, as new electoral systems apply. On Sunday, October 25, Ukrainian voters will go to the polls to vote in local elections.