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Article 1
 

Main Principles of Elections of People's Deputies of Ukraine

 

1.    People's deputies of Ukraine (of this Law hereinafter referred to as deputies) shall be elected by citizens of Ukraine on the principles of universal, equal, and direct suffrage by secret voting.

 

2.    Numerical strength of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine shall be determined by the Constitution of Ukraine.

 

3.    Deputies shall be elected on principles of a proportional system with elections of people's deputies of Ukraine in the multi-mandate all-national constituency (of this Law hereinafter referred to as “the all-national constituency”) by election lists of deputy candidates (of this Law hereinafter referred to as “election lists”) of political parties, Election blocs of political parties (of this Law hereinafter referred to as “parties (blocs)”).

 

4.    Parties (blocs) that obtained at least 3 % of votes given by voters, who took part in the voting, based on voting results, shall take part in distribution of mandates of people's deputies of Ukraine.