Elekcja parlamentarna 2012 roku na Ukrainie

The decisive factor which detennined the victory of the Party of Regions in the 2012 parliamentary election in Ukraine was an introduction of a new voting system in 2011. Therefore, the article focuses, among other things, on certain legal solutions that determined the victory of the ruling party and thus the defeat of the opposition parties. The article discusses the main political powers and priorities of their programmes, as well as integration processes which involved both the opposition and the ruling fractions. The process of creating electoral committees is described together with the most common cases of breaking the law during the election. Furthermore, the official results of parliamentary election of 2012 are analyzed.