COVID–19

SPECIFICITY AND MAIN CONSEQUENCES OF IMPACT OF THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC ON THE 2020 LOCAL ELECTIONS IN UKRAINE (Review Article)

The article is dedicated to the research of peculiarities of impact of the coronavirus pandemic on electoral process and voting results on the example of 2020 local elections in Ukraine. Using the complex of general scientific, logical and empirical methods, the peculiarities and problems of holding elections to local self-government bodies of Ukraine in 2020, which took place in the conditions of the COVID-19 pandemic. The authors argue that Ukrainian authorities didn’t follow the path of most foreign countries and decided not to postpone the date of local elections in 2020.