The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted as a whole the Law "On Elections of People's Deputies of Ukraine" No. 4285-2. It was supported by 255 people's deputies. The voting was held at 23:30 after almost 10 hours of discussion. Recall that people's deputies began consideration of this draft law at 11:00. \nas a LIGABusinessInform correspondent reports, this Law of Ukraine proposes to hold elections of people's deputies under a proportional system. Thus, people's deputies are elected from candidate lists of political parties in a multi-mandate nationwide electoral district. \nA citizen of Ukraine who has reached the age of 21 on election day, has the right to vote and has resided in Ukraine for the last 5 years may be elected as a deputy. A citizen who has an unexpunged and not removed conviction for committing an intentional crime cannot be included in the electoral list. \nThe right to nominate candidates for deputies belongs to citizens of Ukraine who have the right to vote. It is exercised by them through parties (blocs). \nThe election process begins 120 days before election day. To conduct elections, the territory of Ukraine is divided into 225 territorial electoral districts. \nThe Law provides that expenses for the preparation and conduct of elections are carried out exclusively at the expense of the State Budget of Ukraine and the funds of the election funds of parties (blocs). \nCandidates for deputies are nominated by a party (bloc of parties) at its congress, in which at least 200 delegates must participate. Nomination takes place in the form of an electoral list of candidates for deputies from the party (bloc). \nThe order of candidates on the list is determined at the congress (meetings, conferences). Nomination of candidates for deputies begins 119 days and ends 90 days before election day. \nIn accordance with this Law of Ukraine, candidates for deputies included in the electoral lists of parties (blocs) that received 3% or more of the votes of voters who participated in the voting receive the right to participate in the distribution of deputy mandates. \nThe Law enters into force on October 1, 2005. \n