NDI: Pulls out of Ukraine’s group on improvement of election legislation
The National Democratic Institute withdrew on March 17 from a Ukrainian working group developing a new election law.
NDI, in ending its participation, said it was protesting the group’s non-inclusiveness in developing a new election law after local elections in October did not meet democratic standards.
“NDI has decided it must suspend its participation in the group unless steps are taken to make the entire election law drafting process more inclusive and transparent,” Laura Jewett, NDI’s Eurasia regional director, said in a letter to Justice Minister Oleksandr Lavrynovych.
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