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Overall, the bill in its current form appears likely to reduce opportunities for “fair and equal competition among electoral contestants” and is being drafted in a “non-inclusive, non-transparent and non-accountable” manner, said Kristina Wilfore, who heads the US-funded National Democratic Institute in Ukraine.

Wilfore’s NDI and the International Republican Institute, another American pro-democratic institution, both withdrew from the president’s draft law working group on March 17, citing flaws in the process.

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