News and press releases

The early parliamentary elections in Bulgaria on 12 May 2013 were held in a competitive environment, but further efforts are needed to strengthen public confidence in the process and ensure balanced media coverage, the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights concludes in its final report on the vote...

Recommendations from the final report on last year’s general elections in the United States were presented by a team from the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) at the Carter Center in Atlanta and the summer conference of the National Association of Secretaries of State in Anchorage between 17 and 19 July 2013...

KYIV, 17 July 2013- The OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine, in co-operation with the Central Election Commission (CEC), presented a recently developed online training system for election commissioners at an event in Kyiv today...

The parliamentary by-elections held in Georgia on 27 April 2013 were competitive and candidates were able to campaign freely, but aspects of the legal framework could benefit from further review, concludes the final report by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) released on 9 July 2013...

Municipal elections in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia were efficiently administered, but further efforts are required to address gaps and ambiguities in the electoral code and improve confidence in the voter lists, concludes the final report by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)...

VIENNA, 27 June 2013- The Executive Secretary of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) Sergey Lebedev, in his address to the OSCE Permanent Council today, highlighted the need to step up co-operation between international organizations in building a security community, addressing transnational threats, including in the context of “Afghanistan post-2014”, and observing elections...

ULAANBAATAR, 27 June 2013 – Mongolia’s presidential election was characterized by a competitive campaign conducted in an environment that respected fundamental freedoms, concluded the OSCE election observation mission in a statement released today...