Press Briefing by Opora at our Media Center, Kyiv
OPORA’s legal advisor Oleksander Neberykut summarized the findings from the long term observation of the campaign at EPDE’s Media Center in Kyiv. He stated that out of the 39 initially registered candidates, 19 were still actively running by the end of March and 5 top candidates lead a full-fledged nation-wide campaign. Interestingly, 24 […]
EPDE Policy Alert – Electoral Reform in Ukraine #11
Photo: UNIAN The European Platform for Democratic Elections (EPDE) monitors the progress of electoral reform in Ukraine. Issue no. 11 of the “EPDE Policy Alert – Electoral Reform in Ukraine” gives an update on recent developments regarding the Draft Election Code which was approved by the Verkhovna Rada in the first reading in November […]
Monitoring of the Presidential election – DECs and candidates’ programs
The Committee of Voters of Ukraine (CVU) has published its second long-term monitoring report of the Presidential election campaign. In this report CVU confirms the overall transparent establishment of district election commissions (DECs), yet also reports on problematic inclusions of candidates who are not entitled to work in the DECs and lacking experience by other […]
Worst elections in years – incidents on E-Day almost doubled since 2016
Preliminary evaluation of the voting day during the Parliamentary elections in Moldova, held on 24 February 2019, shows the highest number of incidents in comparison to the previous 16 elections observed by the domestic monitors of Promo-LEX. According to the Moldovan EPDE member organization, 1118 incidents were recorded on Election Day which might seriously affect […]
Final report on the 2018 Presidential election
This report by the International Society for Fair Elections and Democracy (ISFED) presents an overview and analysis of the key findings from ISFED’s observation mission of the pre-election, Election Day, election runoff and post-election periods. At the same time, it provides assessment of the work of key administrative bodies involved in elections. Drawing upon the findings, […]
Presidential election campaign – misuse of administrative resources and campaign financing
The Civil Network OPORA has published its second election observation report on the Presidential election campaign in Ukraine, which is taking place on 31 March 2019. The misuse of administrative resources and transparency of campaign financing were two major challenges in February. This is in particular a problem concerning the presidential candidate Petro Poroshenko, as […]
New EPDE booklet on politically biased election observation
The European Platform for Democratic Elections (EPDE) continues to fight the phenomenon of “politically biased observation”. A new EPDE publication shows how politically-motivated election observation tries to mislead the public around the globe. In 2018, biased observation missions “monitored”, among others, the presidential election and the regional elections in Russia, the illegitimate presidential election […]
Long-term monitoring report on the Presidential election campaign
The Committee of Voters of Ukraine (CVU) published its latest findings and recommendations based on its long-term monitoring of the presidential elections occurring on the 31st of March in Ukraine. 1. According to the CVU, the current Law “On Elections of the President of Ukraine” in general allows to organize the due electoral process and to hold […]
OPORA’s observation of the Presidential election campaign in Ukraine
On 31 December 2018, presidential election campaign has official started in Ukraine. Registration of candidates and campaigning are main stages of the race in January 2019. Observers of Civil Network OPORA continued to analyze situation with campaign in regions, activities of the Central Election Commission, and maintained communication with law-enforcement bodies, aimed to prevent and […]
Fact Sheet-2018 On the Human Rights Situation in Azerbaijan
The Election Monitoring and Democracy Studies Centre (EMDS) prepared a report on the situation of human rights in Azerbaijan covering the year 2018 based on publicly available and alternative sources of information. In this summary EMDS concludes that there has not been any progress in the human rights situation in Azerbaijan in 2018 and that the government has […]