Position of the Batory Foundation’s Teams of Experts on the Act of Law amending the Electoral Code
The Batory Foundation wishes to express a deepest concern, and to draw attention to the threats connected with the change of electoral rules implemented by the Act dated 11th January 2018 on the amendment of certain acts of law in order to enhance the citizens’ participation in the process of electing, functioning and controlling certain […]
EPDE Winter Camp took place in Poland
The second Winter Camp for election observers of the EPDE member organisations took place from 11 to 15 December 2017. During one week, a large group of around 100 experts, observers and volunteers from Eastern and Western Europe met near Warsaw, Poland, for this major training event. Participants could chose workshops covering a wide range […]
Press Release: 2015 parliamentary election in Poland
From 23 to 26 October 2015 the European Platform for Democratic Elections conducted its short-term election observation mission to the parliamentary election in Poland. EPDE observers note that the Electoral Code of the Republic of Poland does not provide civil independent domestic election observation. EPDE notes that the rights of the proxies and international observers […]
EPDE expert evaluation of the parliamentary election in Poland, 25 October 2015
From 23 to 26 October 2015 the European Platform for Democratic Elections conducted its short-term election observation mission to the parliamentary election in Poland. EPDE observers note that the Electoral Code of the Republic of Poland does not provide civil independent domestic election observation. EPDE notes that the rights of the proxies and international observers […]
Harassment of Independent Citizens’ Election Observers – Challenges for international Institutions and Civil Society
EPDE is alarmed about the increasing harassment of citizens’ election observers in the ODIHR region. EPDE members in Azerbaijan, the Russian Federation and Belarus are affected by intimidation of staff members, criminal persecution, non-registration of the organisations or of labelling of the organisation as “foreign agents”. Authoritarian regimes “copy and paste” laws to restrict the […]