Election day

What are the elections like in your country? And the electoral campaigns?

The last Ukrainian parliamentary election ( or General election) took place in autumn 2012. That election had significantly different from two previous. They used a mixed voting system : 50% by party lists and 50% by simple-majority constituencies. The election campaign was limited to2 months. Every citizen of Ukraine 18 years of age or older was able to vote ( if they haven't any psychiatric or other medical removals ). Also Ukraine has more than 100 foreign polling(or electoral) stations in many other counties. The electoral colleges were opened after 7 a.m. and closed after 9 p.m. and then the members of scrutineers have to count the ballot papers. This year some parties did the good electoral campaigns and got o lot of voices . They are : The Party of Regions , Svoboda , Udar (with Vitaliy Klichcko) and The Communist Party of Ukraine . The other ones got not so much voices . So Ukraine has a multy-party system and it's really a big problem for our governmant because they often can't find any compromises . I want to believe that they will able to work together intelligently and effectively.

Sun, 02/17/2013 - 20:50

The last Ukrainian parliamentary election (or General election) took place in autumn 2012. That election was significantly different from the previous two. They used a mixed voting system : 50% by party lists and 50% by simple-majority constituencies. The election campaign was limited to 2 months. Every citizen of Ukraine 18 years of age or older was able to vote (if they didn't have any psychiatric or other medical conditions). Also Ukraine has more than 100 foreign polling stations in many other counties. The electoral colleges were opened at 7 a.m. and closed at 9 p.m. and then the scrutineers had to count the ballot papers. This year some parties had good electoral campaigns and got a lot of seats. They are: The Party of Regions, Svoboda, Udar (with Vitaliy Klichcko) and the Communist Party of Ukraine . The others did not get so many seats . So Ukraine has a multy-party system and it's really a big problem for our governmant because they often can't find any compromises . I want to believe that they will able to work together intelligently and effectively.

Good luck! We have seen on TV the Ukrainian parliament "working intelligently and effectively"...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-20712207

Excellent!

17/02/2013 19:50

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Mon, 02/18/2013 - 10:58

Thank you , Steven ! Yes , I have seen it so much times ... and I have a sense of shame because of our Parliament .

18/02/2013 09:58

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Sun, 02/17/2013 - 21:04

The last Ukrainian parliamentary election ( or General election) took place in autumn 2012. That election was significantly different from two previous two. They used a mixed voting system : 50% by party lists and 50% by simple-majority constituencies. The election campaign was limited to two months. Every citizen of Ukraine 18 years of age or older was able to vote ( if they did not have any psychiatric or other medical removals ). Also Ukraine has more than 100 foreign polling(or electoral) stations in many other counties. The electoral colleges were opened after 7 a.m. and closed after 9 p.m. and then the members of scrutineers counted the ballot papers. This year some parties did the good electoral campaigns and got a lot of voices . They are : The Party of Regions , Svoboda , Udar (with Vitaliy Klichcko), and The Communist Party of Ukraine . The other ones had a small voice . So Ukraine has a multy-party system and it's really a big problem for our governmant because they often can't find any compromises . I want to believe that they will able to work together intelligently and effectively.

17/02/2013 20:04

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Mon, 02/18/2013 - 10:59

Thank you , Bryan !

18/02/2013 09:59

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