Sentences with phrase «election observer missions»

Recent high - profile election observer missions have been deployed to the elections in Sri Lanka, Fiji, Nigeria and Malawi; whilst each of these was given a broadly clean bill of health, there were doubts in advance concerning the integrity of the electoral process in these countries.

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All these observer missions were unanimous in their verdict concluding that the Kenyan elections were generally free and fair.

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Andreas Gross, head of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe's (PACE) observer mission, told reporters in Kiev last week that «Ukrainians deserve better than these elections.

I want to thank ECOWAS for its role in the success of the elections and other observer missions that were with us throughout the period, specifically the African Union, the EU and the Commonwealth missions,» he added.

Although there is no direct relation between election observation and successful elections an independent observer mission has a number of benefits.

These observer missions represented an opportunity for their governments and electoral commissions to prove they were up to the task of administering a free and fair election.

I chaired the largest - ever parliamentary observer missions — 30 MEPs — to the last Palestinian elections, the election of President Abbas (Abu Mazen) in January 2005 and then the parliamentary elections which saw the victory of Hamas in January 2006.

Commonwealth observer mission head and Ghana's ex-President John Mahama said there was no reason to doubt the commission's ability to deliver a «credible election».

Yet two reports from different international observer missions — the Spanish Instituto de Altos Estudios Europeos and the US - based Carter Center — emerged in the aftermath of April's poll that have outlined the numerous electoral irregularities they witnessed on election day.