Sentences with phrase «observer missions»

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

Response 20: The Chairperson's managerial competence is evident from her career track record and the reports of local and international election observer missions as well as the commendations from regional directors and senior staff of the EC on the organization of the 2016 elections.

The various observer missions monitoring the elections in Kenya have called for peace in that country.

Commending the voting process, Jonathan said he monitored it, interacted with other observer missions, both foreign and local, adding that «the information so far is identical.»

-- The Senate resuscitated a NATO observer mission to reaffirm its commitment to the organization.

President Mahama said the successful conduct of the December 7 general election in Ghana had further strengthened the country's reputation as a model of democracy and thanked the various observer missions for their roles in the success of the polls.

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.

Attacks against observer missions who monitored Kenya's polls are uncalled for, Executive Director of the Institute for Democratic Governance, Emmanuel Akwetey has said.

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».

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.

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.

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

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.

According to the same cable, Chávez had control over the CNE (National Electoral Council) «and, by extension, the international observer missions.»