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News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Shortcomings during campaign overshadow generally well-run election day, international observers say in Skopje
Publishing date: 28 April 2014
SKOPJE, 28 April 2014 – Fundamental freedoms were respected and candidates were able to campaign without obstruction in the 27 April elections in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, but shortcomings identified in the first round of the presidential election two weeks earlier, including the blurring of state and party activities and biased and unbalanced media coverage in favour of the ruling party, either persisted or were more pronounced, international observers said in a statement issued today...
OSCE Centre supports seminar on enhancing role of political parties in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 16 April 2014
SEMEY, Kazakhstan, 16 April 2014 – Promoting the role of political parties in parliamentary activities in Kazakhstan is the main topic of a two-day seminar supported by the OSCE Centre in Astana. The event, which brought together 25 representatives of national political parties and civil society, began today in Semey, eastern region of Kazakhstan...
Presidential candidates able to campaign freely and fundamental freedoms respected, but campaign playing field not level, international observers say in Skopje
Publishing date: 14 April 2014
SKOPJE, 14 April 2014 – Fundamental freedoms were respected and candidates were able to campaign freely in the efficiently administered 13 April 2014 presidential election in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, although biased and unbalanced media coverage and a blurring of state and party activities created an unbalanced playing field, international observers said in a statement issued today...
OSCE/ODIHR and OSCE Office in Tajikistan discuss final report on presidential elections and expanding political participation at meeting in Dushanbe
Publishing date: 9 April 2014
DUSHANBE, 9 April 2014 – The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) presented today the final report of the Election Observation Mission for the November 2013 presidential election at an event co-organized with the OSCE Office in Tajikistan....
Although parliamentary elections in Hungary offered voters a diverse choice, ruling party enjoyed undue advantage, say international observers
Publishing date: 7 April 2014
BUDAPEST, 7 April 2014 – The 6 April 2014 parliamentary elections were well administered and offered voters a diverse choice, but a number of factors provided undue advantage to the ruling party, international observers said in a statement issued today. These included the manner in which a large number of changes to the legal framework were passed, restrictive campaign regulations, biased media coverage and the blurring of the separation between a ruling political party and the state...
OSCE Presence, Council of Europe assist Albania in increasing election commissioners’ professionalism
Publishing date: 31 March 2014
TIRANA, 31 March 2014- Best practices and platforms for the training of electoral commissioners were discussed today in Tirana at a roundtable organized by the Central Election Commission (CEC) with the support of the OSCE Presence and the Council of Europe’s office in Albania. Concrete examples of electoral training centres were brought by the directors of two such structures in Georgia and Moldova.
OSCE parliamentarians meet Acting President of Ukraine on pre-election visit
Publishing date: 28 March 2014
KYIV, 28 March 2014 – A delegation of senior OSCE parliamentarians today completed a pre-election visit to Ukraine that featured discussions with Acting President Oleksandr Turchynov.