News and press releases

Elections experts from ODIHR met with electoral stakeholders in Warsaw on 28 March to present the final report of ODIHR’s election assessment mission for the 25 October 2015 parliamentary elections in Poland.

SOFIA, 27 March 2017 – Contestants in Bulgaria’s early parliamentary elections could reach out to voters freely, while the low-key campaign was generally characterized by public disillusionment with politics and election weariness, international observers concluded in a preliminary statement released today. The legal framework is largely conducive to holding democratic elections, and amendments since the 2014 elections addressed some previous recommendations for improvements, but further efforts are needed, the statement says...

COPENHAGEN, 24 March 2017 – OSCE parliamentarians will observe the upcoming parliamentary elections in Armenia and provide leadership for the OSCE’s short-term observer mission...

Experts from the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) visited Vilnius from 21 to 22 March 2017 to present the  final report of ODIHR’s election assessment mission for the 9 October 2016 parliamentary elections in Lithuania. The report’s findings and recommendations were

The review of limitations on fundamental rights, the harmonization of electoral laws and the removal of restrictions on the rights of individuals to vote and run as candidates are some of the main recommendations contained in the  final report  by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and

While concluding that the 4 December 2016 repeat second round of the Austrian presidential election was professionally and efficiently administered and the legal framework provided a sound basis for the conduct of democratic elections, the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights

ANKARA, 17 March 2017 – The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) today formally opened a limited referendum observation mission (LROM) for the 16 April constitutional referendum in Turkey. The mission’s deployment follows an invitation from the Turkish authorities...