Social Media Monitoring – ISFED’s 2nd Interim Report
Source: isfed.ge The present report summarizes trends identified by ISFED during the last stage of the pre-election period of the first round, as well as in the period between the first and the second rounds of the presidential election. Findings of the monitoring confirm that Facebook was used not only for political discussions but also […]
EPDE Policy Alert – Electoral Reform in Ukraine #10
Photo: 5 Kanal The European Platform for Democratic Elections (EPDE) monitors the progress of electoral reform in Ukraine. Issue no. 10 of the “EPDE Policy Alert – Electoral Reform in Ukraine” gives an outlook on next year’s presidential and parliamentary elections with a special focus on the lack of an effective system of legal liability […]
Newsletter December 2018
“We have observed the best performed elections in decades”
Independent citizen observer groups praise the overall calm and fair conduct of the early parliamentary elections held in Armenia on 9 December 2018. “The voting process throughout Armenia was generally calm and conducted in accordance with the law, however few serious incidents were recorded” said Sona Ayvazyan, director of Transparency International Anti-Corruption Center and […]
Calm and competitive atmosphere during campaign, but several violations
Picture source: Media Center Armenia Observers find general atmosphere of election campaign for the 9 December early parliamentary elections in Armenia calm and competitive, but also note several violations. “The general atmosphere of the election campaign has been calm, and there has been no mass prevalence of violations like previously, e.g. threats, vote […]
Parliamentary elections in Armenia: Invitation to joint press conference
Election Campaign – Interim Conclusions ahead of the Election DayEarly Parliamentary Elections in Armenia, 9 September 2018 The European Platform for Democratic Elections (EPDE) together with its Armenian member organisations Helsinki Citizens Assembly Vanadzor and Transparency International Anticorruption Centeras well as experts from the citizen observers’ coalitions Independent Observer and Akanates will present the findings […]
IESC publishes paper on Russia’s election meddling
The International Elections Study Centre (IESC), an EPDE member from Lithuania, has published a paper, focusing on Russia’s election meddling as a measure of political warfare. For Putin’s regime, meddling in elections is only part of a bigger campaign in the Kremlin’s war against the West, carried out non-stop for a long time and […]
ISFED Election Day Final PVT Results
Source: isfed.ge Election Day Final PVT Results The International Society for Fair Elections and Democracy (ISFED) was monitoring the second round of the 2018 Presidential Elections in all electoral districts around Georgia. ISFED Observation Mission consisted of 651 short-term observers (STO) at polling stations, 73 observers deployed at district electoral commissions and 78 mobile teams. […]
Promo-LEX analysis on the possibility of holding a Republican referendum on the day of the parliamentary elections
The Promo-LEX Association notes that the holding of a consultative referendum on the same day with the parliamentary elections of 24 February 2019 is not based on an explicit legal framework. Furthermore, the Constitutional Court issued a negative opinion on the subject of merging such polls. Additionally, the political interests of the party that proposed […]
The globalisation of Pro-Kremlin Networks of politically Biased Election observation: the cases of Cambodia and Zimbabwe
Source: https://www.facebook.com/aariikaa/posts/10160611503200317 Executive Summary Due to the fact that the Cambodian authorities banned the main opposition party in 2017, Western states declined to send any observers to monitor the parliamentary elections in Cambodia held on 29 July 2018. On the contrary, for the first time since 2002, Western institutions sent several missions to monitor […]