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This Report was prepared by the Election Monitoring and Democracy Studies Center (EMDS) on the basis of information submitted by election observers registered in the Central and District Election Commissions for monitoring the October 15, 2008 Presidential Election held in the Republic of Azerbaijan. Information received from “Turan” and “Trend” information agencies, “Azerbaijan”, “Xalq” and “Zerkalo” newspapers, “Elections” Information Center, and the Institute of Reporters’ Freedom...
The new NGO called Election Monitoring and Democracy Studies Center will deal with development of election system and education of the democratic values.
Center for Democratic Transition (CDT) observed the conduct of elections for councilors of the Local Parliament in Kotor, taking into account polling stations determined by the October 14th decision of the Municipal Election Commission...
In the light of forthcoming in 2010 Kazakhstan OSCE Chairmanship it is necessary to clearly understand, which exact changes required to correspond electoral legislation to OSCE standards in the sphere of elections.
Republican Network of Independent Monitors for the first time implemented long-term and short-term monitoring of indirect (via electors) October 4, 2008 elections of deputies to Senate of Parliament. Monitoring was held on elections day and also during whole period, preceding day of elections.
This statement is the third GOLOS Association statement on the results of monitoring of the elections of deputies of legislative bodies of Russian Federation subjects, heads of administrative centers of Russian Federation subjects, and deputies of representative bodies of municipal raions and other municipal entities, set for October 12, 2008.
International Society for Fair Elections and Democracy (ISFED) actively started pre-election activities for the November 3, 2008 Adjara Autonomous Republic Supreme Council Elections and Parliament of Georgia By-Elections. ISFED present its first edition of an online bulletin "Election Update"...
Preliminary statement of the statistically based observation of a citizen group of observers on the Results of the Election Day Observation of the October 15, 2008 Presidential Elections of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
Statement #2 of «GOLOS» Association based on the results of long-term monitoring of regional electoral campaigns (The campaigning stage).
Committee of voters of Ukraine has been conducting monitoring of MPs’ activities for several years. The monitoring includes quantitative and qualitative analysis of legislative activities of people’s deputies, fulfillment of pre-election promises, and analysis of direct communication with voters.
From the moment of announcement of the elections to the Chamber of Representatives of the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus of 4th convocation Belarusian Helsinki Committee, in cooperation with the human rights defenders, began the monitoring of the election. The monitoring was conducted on the basis of long-term observation of the main stages of the election campaign...
Human rights defenders traced carrying out of a stage of pre-election campaign within the limits of long-term monitoring of elections.
Election Monitoring Center (EMC) has conducted the first stage (August 1-September 20, 2008) of Long Term Observation (LTO) in advance of the 15 October 2008 Presidential Election. LTO includes monitoring of the whole election process including the pre-election environment and the post-election process.
The main intrigue of the week is a question: will or won’t opposition candidates participate in elections? The integrated approach is not developed, though some of the candidates have withdrawn their candidacies. The BNF party compromised with candidates for promotion and gave them an opportunity to make decisions independently.
On September 19, Supreme Court's Judicial Collegium on Civil Cases, chaired by Judge Aslan Kalbaliyev, held a hearing on Election Monitoring Center complaint on Baku Appeal Court's verdict of 14 July 2008. The Supreme Court rejected EMC's complaint because EMC's appeal was not prepared by a lawyer with membership in the Collegium of Advocates.
GOLOS Association: First statement on results of long-term monitoring (nomination, registration and beginning of propaganda campaign). The statement is the first of the series, which follow the election campaign developments. It covers the period from the announcement of elections to September 15. The association will make two more statements – one following the propaganda campaign and another – following voting results and finalization of results.
According to CVU estimations, a political crisis in Ukraine has two real solutions: creation of Party of regions-Yulia Tymoshenko’s Block or early parliamentary elections. In the first variant, many voters will regard PR-BYuT block coalition as a revision of election results and perversion of 2007 will expression...
Taking into consideration the experience of the electoral campaigns in 2006 and 2007, when illegal preventive arrests of opposition activists were massive, Human Rights Center Viasna states its grave concern with the possible repeat of this scenario during the present electoral campaign.
Election Monitoring Center (EMC), with the assistance of National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI), conducted Training of Trainers for the 15 October Presidential Election. The primary purpose of the training was to prepare trainers to train recruited election observers in impartial and neutral observation rules, the rights and duties of observers as well as the structure of the observation mission.
In view of deepening political crisis in Ukraine and increasing probability of early parliamentary elections more and more appeals for raising the barrier are made. The most ambitious initiatives propose to raise the barrier up to 10 per cent.
The main event this week was registration of candidates to the Chamber of Representatives of the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus. According to the Central electoral commission, 276 candidates out of 365 were registered. 76 of the registered ones represent the united democratic forces. Election observers had been given no opportunity to observe how the constituency commissions checked the signatures for registration of candidacies...
A new issue of Center of Democratic Transition’s Parliamentary Bulletin covers 4-months period – from April 1st to July 31, 2008.
Formation of precinct election commissions was the main topic this week. As a result, very few representatives of pro-democratic parties and NGOs will work in the commissions. Another week trend was growing amount of promotion of pro-governmental candidates in state mass media, who, in violation of the election law, seem to be not ashamed of giving election promises on this stage of the campaign.
Election Monitoring Center (EMC) will assist citizens so that they can be involved in ensuring free and fair Presidential Elections the 15th October 2008. EMC will carry out activities such as voter list verifications, formation of citizen groups that can carry out impartial and individual election observations...
International Society for Fair Election and Democracy (ISFED) Presents the Final Report on Monitoring the May 21, 2008 Parliamentary Elections.
Center for Democratic Transition (CDT) has published new electronic publication- "Guide through the State Institutions of Montenegro". This electronic publication contains the overview of powers, organization and functioning of two state institutions - the Government of Montenegro and the President of Montenegro.
The main events in Belarus in June are the official appointment of the parliamentary elections, the start of the electoral campaign and the adoption of the new law On mass media which considerably aggravates the situation of mass media in the country and is evidently repressive. On 24 June the president of Belarus Alexander Lukashenka signed order #344 On appointment of the elections to the Chamber of Representatives of the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus of the fourth convocation..
Repeated re-run of the Early parliamentary elections 2008 is assessed by the Citizens Association MOST as peaceful, but once again marred by irregularities in the process of voting and votes count.
On the bases of the reports from the observers, deployed at the 70 percent of the polling stations in R Macedonia, as well as from the regional coordinators, the Citizens Association MOST assesses the election day of the Early parliamentary elections 2008 as tensed, full with pressures and with restricted and heavily serious incidents.
In spite of the relatively peaceful environment in most of the polling-stations, sufficient knowledge of electoral commission members, legality during the voting, and valid calculation processes in a substantial number of polling stations, the IYC observed a series of violations, shortcomings, inaccuracies, and other concerning facts which to a certain extent cast a shadow on civil society’s expectations about democratic elections.
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