KYIV – Ukraine’s eighth Parliament since independence convened its final plenary session on July 11 with a long-awaited political breakthrough – the adoption of a new Election Code designed to improve and democratize the country’s election system.
It followed weeks of recriminations after the calling of snap parliamentary elections by newly elected President Volodymyr Zelenskyy between his team and the outgoing administration of President Petro Poroshenko and his allies in the Verkhovna Rada. It took a ruling by the Constitutional Court on June 20 to remove doubts about the legality of Mr. Zelenskyy’s action.