OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine trains judges on election legislation

Uniform interpretation of the election legislation is the focus of two training seminars for Ukraine’s administrative court judges that started on 18 September 2012 in Odessa with support from the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (PCU).

Training participants will discuss the specifics of the revised Law On Elections of People’s Deputies of Ukraine and potential challenges during the upcoming Parliamentary elections in October. They will also learn about the judicial practice in resolving election-related disputes.

By the end of September 2012, the PCU will have completed five such seminars and trained some 150 administrative court judges from Dnipropetrovsk, Kherson, Kirovograd, Mykolayiv, Odessa and Zaporizhia regions.

The training seminars are organized in co-operation with Ukraine’s Higher Administrative Court and the International Foundation for Electoral Systems as part of a PCU-implemented project to enhance the coherence of administrative court practice in Ukraine.

The seminars are supported by the government of Germany.