The Verkhovna Rada adopted a law on elections on a proportional basis with a 3% threshold. \n \nAt the parliament session, which ended half an hour before midnight, 255 deputies voted for it. \n \nSPU leader Oleksandr Moroz said that this is "the law we fought for 8 years" and it corresponds to the memorandum signed by "Our Ukraine", BYuT, SPU and CPU. \n \nMoroz addressed the deputies present and radio listeners: "You received a lot of negative information from those who did not want the law to be adopted. But the motives for this are not related to the content of the law." \n \nCPU leader Petro Symonenko said that during this session of the Verkhovna Rada "people heard false and dirty information about the Communist Party." "We were accused by those who traded the interests of the Ukrainian people for 12 years," said Symonenko and added that "the oligarchs formed and were based on the policy of Rukh and the current Nashists." \n\n"Our Ukrainian" Ivan Zayets, who criticized the communists most during the consideration of this issue, said that "we saw all the hypocrisy in the behavior of the communists." "They embraced the oligarchs, and they will pour tears on the people and tear their shirts on themselves." \n\nZayets said that the CPU "opened the way to a state coup," but he "does not know for how many millions they sold out." \n\nThe law does not provide for the participation of public organizations in election observation. Although the rapporteur of the law, Oleksandr Moroz, after the removal of this norm, proposed to return it during the vote as a whole, this was not done. \n