News and press releases

Following the early parliamentary elections in Greece on 7 July 2019, the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) has published its final report. The report notes that the elections were competitive and offered voters a wide choice of political alternatives, with

COPENHAGEN, 13 December 2019 – More than 50 observers from the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly are deploying to Uzbekistan for the 22 December parliamentary elections. It is the first time for the OSCE PA observing an election in the country...

The OSCE Mission to Montenegro organized a workshop for the State Election Commission (SEC) on communication strategies with the national and local media on 9 and 10 December 2019 in Podgorica...

TASHKENT, 25 November 2019 –The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) today opened an election observation mission for the 22 December parliamentary elections in Uzbekistan. The deployment follows an invitation from the country’s authorities.

The OSCE Mission to Montenegro organized a training course for senior representatives from the State Election Commission and Municipal Election Commissions on how to train polling station staff on polling station procedures on 21 and 22 November 2019 in Podgorica...

New trends in elections and international best practices for observing them were the topics of a high-level panel discussion during an annual meeting on the implementation of the Declaration of Principles for International Election Observation, which was hosted by the OSCE Office for Democratic

Following elections held in Ukraine in 2019, the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) has published reports on the two-round presidential election and the early parliamentary elections.