The Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Volodymyr Lytvyn said this during his meeting with the Election Observation Mission of the OSCE Provisional Commission to observe the 28 October parliamentary elections in Ukraine on Thursday, answering the questions of the participants of the meeting.
The members of the delegation positively assessed the adoption of the electoral law a year ago and the fact that it remained unchanged during this period.
At the same time, the Chairman of the Parliament said that the Parliament of the next convocation should adopt the Electoral Code that should not be amended for at least ten years.
V.Lytvyn reminded that a decision to adopt the law on elections of people?s deputies by 366 votes last year was a compromise one. At the same time, he noted that mixed electoral system is not enough for political structuring of society.
Among the disadvantages of the current electoral law, the Head of the Parliament named large districts that complicate the effective work of a deputy with voters. He noted also that deputies elected from political party lists hardly bear any responsibility before the voters.
V.Lytvyn named the 5% threshold to be too high, saying that for the country in the transition period, like Ukraine, it should not exceed 1%.