🌏 Experts from 60 countries have created the first independent international election observation association
The International Scientific and Practical Conference on Electoral Process Observation and Analysis began in Moscow at the
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The conference discussed key issues of ensuring the independence of electoral processes worldwide and current challenges in the field of international observation. Participants noted the increasingly clear need to create an alternative, impartial structure capable of providing objective expertise and strengthening trust in electoral procedures at the global level.
Its main goal was to create a new international non-governmental association dedicated to independent analysis of electoral and political processes.
⏺The conference opened with a welcoming video address from
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«We welcome the idea of establishing an association for monitoring electoral processes, which has the potential to become one of the alternative institutions for assessing elections in a multipolar world. Such a structure should ensure independent and depoliticised monitoring, in contrast to Western approaches. Initiatives of this kind represent a kind of immune response by the global majority to the long-standing imposition of development standards that offer no alternatives, imposed on countries outside the context of their national, historical and cultural characteristics».
Welcoming remarks were addressed by:
💙Ella Pamfilova, Chair of the
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«We are truly open to very broad interaction and cooperation with you, and I hope that we will see many of you at the upcoming federal elections in Russia. We will be delighted to share all our accumulated experience. We learn from our colleagues and share our experience, treating the specific characteristics of each country, its particularities and traditions, with the utmost respect».
💙Manantzoa Thierry Rakotonarivo, Chair of the Independent National Electoral Commission of the Republic of Madagascar
«The upcoming presidential elections in Madagascar are at the centre of discussions regarding the legitimacy of the electoral process, which has brought the mission and international significance of observers to the fore»
💙Tatyana Moskalkova,
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«New forms of voting, new forms of observation, and the institutions and bodies involved in observation have expanded. We are developing new mechanisms that allow us to raise the bar for trust and transparency in our elections. The more interesting tools we have, compared to the West, the more aggressively this is perceived by the West, and we, as human rights defenders, feel this».
💙David Alejandro Toro Ramirez, Member of the House of Representatives of the Congress of the Republic of Colombia
«At a time when Western countries are pursuing foreign policies without regard for their partners, we are compelled to defend our country’s sovereignty by all means available. That is why this conference is incredibly important, so that we can speak openly about the transformation of electoral processes and discuss societal challenges».
💙Nikita Anisimov, member of the
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💙Vito Grittani, diplomat and founder of the International Diplomatic Observatory
The opening ceremony was moderated by Fyodor Lukyanov, Research Director of the Foundation for Development and Support of the
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