Electoral reform across Europe – EPDE side event at the HDIM
Photo: OSCE/Piotr Dziubak The European Platform for Democratic Elections (EPDE) will hold a side event at the upcoming 2019 Human Dimension Implementation Meeting (HDIM) of OSCE in Warsaw. It will take place on the first day of the HDIM, on 16 September at 13.15 hours – right after the opening plenary session. The event […]
Working on electoral reform should continue
ISFED and partner NGOs have released a statement about the ongoing electoral reform working group and proposed legislative changes drafted by the Georgian Dream. ISFED positively assesses the changes proposed to the Law on Political Unions of Citizens in relation to the change of the political party finance regulations and move to a so called […]
Working on electoral reform should continue
Earlier this week ISFED and partner NGOs have released a statement about the ongoing electoral reform working group and proposed legislative changes drafted by the Georgian Dream. ISFED positively assesses the changes proposed to the Law on Political Unions of Citizens in relation to the change of the political party finance regulations and move to […]
Report no. 1 – Observation Mission
The pre-election period hasbeencharacterizedby adelay in constituting the parliamentary majority, which led touncertainties with regard tothe date of the general local elections.Politicalcontext of local elections was outlinedby the establishment of a new governing alliance (the PSRM, PAS, PPPDA) andthe PDM (ruling party since 2009)moving to the opposition.Party switchingbythe local elected officialsis anotherconsequence of the relations […]
Findings and conclusions: Parliamentary elections in Ukraine
Image source: Civil Network Opora During the European Platform for Democratic Elections (EPDE)’s round table discussion on the conduct and the findings of the Parliamentary elections in Ukraine, many participants spoke of these elections being a watershed moment in Ukrainian history. This was an election of ‘firsts’ since this was the first summer election […]
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Statement of OPORA on the Parliamentary elections
During the election day, observers of the Civil Network OPORA did not identify any systemic violations of election law or conflicts that would destabilize the course of voting or have any significant impact on citizen voting results. However, frequent and recurrent procedural violations made by polling station election commissions and the incompetence or illegitimate intentions […]
Findings from CVU on the Parliamentary elections
Photo: UNIAN Main findings of CVU’s observation: 1. According to the CVU, E-day was generally conducted in accordance with the requirements of Ukrainian legislation and international standards of democratic elections. In comparison to the previous elections of the President of Ukraine in 2019 and the extraordinary Parliamentary elections in 2014, the number and nature of […]