The early Parliamentary Elections of 11 July 2021 were marked by recurring problems
On 15 September 2021 – the International Day of Democracy, Promo-LEX Association organised the Post-Election Conference ‘Conclusions and Recommendations of Promo-LEX Observation Mission on early Parliamentary Elections of 11 July 2021’. The online event was attended by representatives of electoral bodies, other relevant institutions, electoral contenders and political parties, as well as civil society […]
ISFED published final election day assessment
Information on the monitoring mission The International Society for Fair Elections and Democracy (ISFED) monitored the October 30, 2021 Municipal election runoffs in eight municipalities, including five self-governing cities (Tbilisi, Rustavi, Batumi, Poti and Kutaisi) and 3 self-governing communities (Zugdidi, Ozurgeti and Telavi).* ISFED’s election day observation mission in these municipalities consisted of 15 mobile groups, 542 […]
Armenian Local Elections Rescheduled And Expanded Due To Municipal Amalgamations
Armenia is holding its most important[1] local (city council) elections in recent years this autumn, as the proportional party list system is expanding at the municipal level. A delayed municipal amalgamation process has pushed back dates but is now complete. We Interrupt Your Regularly Scheduled Election Programming While many countries tend to hold all their […]
Discussion Summary – Preliminary assessment of the first round of local elections in Georgia
The International Society for Fair Elections and Democracy and the reports ISFED. What’s next? Second rounds of elections will take place in several municipalities on the 30th of October and observers strongly hope to not see the same type of pressure on voters and candidates in the pre-election environment or any controlling of the free […]
Preliminary statement and parallel vote tabulation
Information on the monitoring missionThe International Society for Fair Elections and Democracy (ISFED) monitored the October 2, 2021 Municipal elections in all electoral districts across Georgia (excluding the occupied territories).ISFED’s election day observation mission consisted of around 1,000 accredited and trained observers deployed at polling stations, 73 observers deployed at district electoral commissions and 78 […]
Ongoing harassment against independent election observation
On September 29, the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation added 20 election experts of the Movement for the Protection of the Voters Rights “Golos” to the “register of foreign mass media performing the functions of a foreign agent”. Qualifying Golos observers as “foreign agents” at a time when every day more falsifications of […]
Discussion Summary – Assessment of the Pre-Election Environment
The International Society for Fair Elections and Democracy, the Black Sea Trust for Regional Cooperation hosted a roundtable discussion to assess the pre-election environment in Georgia a few days prior to polling day, scheduled for October 2, 2021. The upcoming local elections have attracted more attention than any other previous municipal election ever has. There […]
Bogus International Monitors for the Bogus Russian Parliamentary Elections
Press briefing with group of French politicians, including MEP Thierry Mariani pictured here, invited to “monitor” the State Duma elections in Saint Petersburg, 19.09.2021. Source: politexpert.net – Evgeniy Zaytsev. With the gradual systemic decline of the democratic character of Russian presidential, parliamentary, and other elections, Vladimir Putin’s regime found it increasingly difficult to secure […]
Discussion Summary – Electoral Discourse Ahead of Georgia’s Local Elections
The International Society for Fair Elections and Democracy, the Black Sea Trust for Regional Cooperation hosted a public discussion during which experts discussed the politically polarized environment, media landscape, and electoral discourse during the election campaign to the 2 October local elections. The local elections have an outsized significance with the opposition campaigning on this […]
Second interim report local elections
On September 23 the International Society for Fair Elections and Democracy (ISFED) presented the second interim report of monitoring of official pre-election campaign. The report covers the period from 31 August up to 21 September, as well as a few separate events that either began before 31 August and carried over into the reporting period, […]
