EPDE Member EMDS (Azerbaijan) Preliminary Report on Presidential Elections in Azerbaijan
EMDS noted few violations during the opening of polling stations on the Election Day. However, the voting process was marred with serious violations (multiple voting, bringing voters to polling stations in groups, voters whose name are not on the list allowed to vote and ballot-box stuffing) similar to ones occurred in previous elections. Observers cooperating […]
EPDE Member EMDS (Azerbaijan) issues second Interim Report on the Pre-election Campaign
EMDS and ICV notes with regret that the government failed to demonstrate progress in democratization of political environment, freedom of expression, freedom of assembly and association during the election campaigning period. The organizations welcome the significant increase of political interest, political discussions and public interest in overall election process during the 9 October 2013 […]
ISFED fourth interim report on Presidential Elections in georgia, 27 October 2013
The International Society for Fair Elections and Democracy presents fourth interim report of pre-election monitoring for October 27, 2013 presidential elections. The reporting period reflects violations identified during the period from August 20 through September 8, 2013. “We have found two cases that involved physical assault and one case that involved pressure on political […]
EPDE Member EMDS (Azerbaijan) issues first Report about Nomination and Registration of Candidates of Presidential Elections in Azerbaijan
Baku, 16 September 2013: Election Monitoring and Democracy Studies Center (EMDS) and Volunteers International Cooperation Public Union (VIC) conducted long term observation of the first stage of the 9 October 2013 Presidential Elections (10 August – 14 September) of the Republic of Azerbaijan. The monitoring of this stage, which included the pre-election environment […]
EPDE Member Norwegian Helsinki Committee (NHC) issues Press release of the Norwegian Parliamentary Elections 9 September 2013
Foto: Tom Henning Bratlie PRESS RELEASE: Norwegian Parliamentary Elections 9 September 2013 Fair elections with potential for improvement Summary of main impressions from the election observers: Overview Oslo, 10 September 2013: First of all, the observers would like to express great gratitude for the hospitality that we were met with in all […]
EPDE Member ISFED – Georgia issues THIRD Report of the Pre – Election – Monitoring
Tblisi, 2 September 2013: EPDE Member International Society for Fair Elections and Democracy (ISFED) presents third pre-election monitoring report for the October 27, 2013, presidential elections.The report covers the period from August 5 through August 20, 2013. According to ISFED, from the start of the pre-election campaign there have been no massive violations […]
EPDE Member ISFED – Georgia issues SECOND Report of the Pre – Election – Monitoring
Tblisi,12 August 2013: EPDE Member International Society for Fair Elections and Democracy (ISFED) presents second pre-election monitoring report for the October 27, 2013, presidential elections. The monitoring covers the period from July 20 through August 4, 2013. The reporting period was marked by a relatively active pre-election campaign; however, acts of violence against political […]
EPDE concerned about change of electoral system in Moldova behind closed doors
Chisinau, 22 April 2013: The European Platform for Democratic Elections and its Moldovan member organization Promo-LEX Association are alarmed by the hurried and non-transparent modification of the electoral system in Moldova. On April 16th the draft law on changing the electoral system was registered in the Parliament by a group of deputies; […]
EPDE Statement on Presidential Elections in Armenia, 18 February 2013
The elections were characterised by a lack of political competition, low-key campaigning and a relatively low presence of partisan election observers in precincts on election-day. This has to be explained with the decision of the three main opposition parties not to nominate their candidates for the Presidential elections and consequently not to deploy their […]
EPDE protests detention of civic activists in Azerbaijan
European Platform for Democratic Elections protests the detention of civil society activists in Khachmaz region of Azerbaijan. Baku, 13 February 2013: The European Platform for Democratic Elections (EPDE) condemns yesterday’s incident in Khamaz, Azerbaijan, where a training conducted by representatives of EPDE’s member organization Election Monitoring and Democracy Studies Center (EMDS) was disrupted by […]