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A team of election experts from the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) presented the final report of ODIHR’s Election Expert Team to the 30 May 2021 parliamentary elections in Cyprus on 4 and 5 May 2022. “We welcome the willingness of the Cypriot authorities to engage

A team of election experts from the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) met with electoral stakeholders in Armenia from 26 to 29 April 2022 to present the final report of ODIHR’s Election Observation Mission to the 20 June 2021 early parliamentary elections.

Uzbekistan presidential election 2021: ODIHR election observation Uzbekistan presidential election 2021: ODIHR election observation mission final report Uzbekistan’s 2021 presidential election has shown that the recent reforms, which have introduced welcome improvements, have yet to result in a

Election experts from the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) presented the  final report on Kazakhstan’s 2021 parliamentary elections during a visit to Nur-Sultan that took place from 10 to 14 April 2022. The experts discussed the report’s key findings and

From 5 to 8 April 2022 a team of election experts from the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) met with electoral stakeholders in Mongolia to present the final report of ODIHR’s Special Election Assessment Mission to the 9 June 2021 presidential election. The report’s

Georgia’s 2021 local elections were competitive and transparent, but took place in the increasingly polarized atmosphere of a protracted political crisis. Contestants were able to campaign freely, although the environment was marred by widespread allegations of vote-buying, pressure on candidates

BELGRADE, 4 April 2022 – Fundamental freedoms were largely respected in Serbia’s 3 April presidential and early parliamentary elections, and voters were presented diverse political options, but a number of shortcomings resulted in an uneven playing field, favouring the incumbents, international observers said in a statement today. The combined impact of unbalanced access to the media, undue pressure on public sector employees to support the incumbents, significant campaign finance disparities and misuse of state resources resulted in unequal conditions for contestants, the statement says...