On 16 February 2016 the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine by a majority of 236 votes adopted Law N° 1006-VIII amending the Law on elections of people’s deputies of Ukraine allowing the exclusion of candidates for people’s deputies of Ukraine from the election list in the national multi-member constituency after the tabulation of electoral results (Articles 1 and 2 of the Amending Law of Ukraine “On Elections of People’s Deputies of Ukraine”). The Law states that it “covers electoral lists of candidates for people’s deputies of Ukraine from political parties, which had been subjects of electoral process at snap elections of people’s deputies of Ukraine on 26 October, 2014.”