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 Despite the common rhetoric that the new election system will radically improve the quality of parliament and bring in new faces, a deeper look at the candidates reveals that this is not the case. The most the Oct. 28 parliamentary election will be capable of achieving is to replace about a third of old faces with new.

 Not only are parties not getting rid of the incumbents (even the ones with a dismal record of activities), they are featuring high on party lists and getting endorsed in majority constituencies.

Moreover, the front-runners of the race, such as the Party of Regions, the United Opposition and Ukraine-Forward have the highest concentration of deputies who have defected from their political forces in the past and are likely to do it again.

Deputies with a poor performance record in the past are running in all parts of the country, showing that Ukrainian voters across the country are lacking political memory,  reliable information and new alternatives to the incumbents.

The new infographic produced by Chesno watchdog illustrates all these trends well. Enjoy!



The Chesno watchdog infographic shows that the new parliament will not be very new.