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Ukraine EPDE Media Center for the Presidential Election

March 18, 2019

EPDE will host several press conferences with international election experts and our member organizations, the Committee of Voters of Ukraine (CVU) and the Civil Network OPORA, during the election weekend in Kyiv, 29 March - 01 April. EPDE can additionally help arrange interviews for journalists with representatives from our member organizations.

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Ukraine Monitoring of the Presidential election - DECs and candidates' programs

March 14, 2019

The Committee of Voters of Ukraine (CVU) published its second report on the Presidential election campaign highlighting issues concerning the candidates for the district election commissions (DECs) despite their overall transparent establishment. CVU also analyzed the campaign programs of the presidential candidates, which lack clear implementable strategies. Further issues can be found in the full report here.

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Ukraine Presidential election campaign - misuse of administrative resources and campaign financing

March 07, 2019

The Civil Network OPORA reported on two major challenges during the Presidential election campaign in February: the misuse of administrative resources and transparency of campaign financing.

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Moldova 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. Find a complete collection of all reports from the election monitoring mission here.

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EPDE 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.

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Ukraine OPORA's observation of the Presidential election campaign in Ukraine

OPORA has been recording the wide-scale early campaigning efforts organized by over ten potential candidates over the last few months. There remains some legal uncertainty about the character of such campaigning and there is also a problem of shadow campaign financing occuring during the official election process.

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Ukraine Long-term monitoring report on the Presidential election campaign

The latest long-term monitoring report on the presidential elections by the Committee of Voters of Ukraine (CVU) indicates that there remain some technical flaws with the current legislation concerning the presidential election and issues around election campaigning.

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Azerbaijan 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. Their conclusion is that there has not been any progress in the situation of human rights in Azerbaijan in 2018.

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