Between July 23rd and October 29th, 2012, the International Election Observation Mission ENEMO monitored the Parliamentary Elections in Ukraine.
Under Observation Mission, 86 international observers ENEMO, conducted 546 visits to polling stations, observed the tabulation process in 42 precincts and followed the transfer from polling stations in 40 electoral districts.
ENEMO found that, compared with the pre-election period in 2006 and in 2007, a large number of violations of electoral law were found. Violations mainly refer to use of administrative resources, harassment and intimidation of candidates and journalists.
ENEMO’s top priorities are objectivity, impartiality and trustworthiness of the information collected by its observers, which is required by ENEMO responsibilities before the documents network endorsed. The focus at all stages of observation was on: Local Political developments, Work of the Election administration, Activities of Political parties / candidates, Work of the Local / regional administration, Specifics of the Election campaign, Media environment, Women and minority participation, Work of NGOs and Local non-partisan observers, Assessment of the voters education activities and Monitoring of official Complaints and appeals. ENEMO monitors worked closely with domestic and international observation missions whose observation methodology meets international standards.
During the pre-election period ENEMO released three summary reports which were presented at official press conferences. ENEMO prepared and presented a report on Election Day. The Report is available here.
The final Report on the Parliamentary Elections in Ukraine will be issued by ENEMO in the close future.
Promo-LEX Association is a member of ENEMO Network starting with 2009. Thus, under the ENEMO monitoring mission, Promo-LEX delegated 2 long-term observers to monitor, during August 5th – November 2nd, 2012, the Parliamentary Elections in Ukraine. Additionally, during October 25th-30th, Promo-LEX also delegated 4 short-term observers to monitor the Election-Day under the ENEMO monitoring mission.
For further information, please contact:
Maja Milikic, Deputy Head/ PR Officer; Cell: +380 (0) 99 753 31 32, E-mail: [email protected]
Pavel Postica, Program Director, Tel: (22) 450024, GSM: 069165154, e-mail: [email protected]
The European Network of Election Monitoring Organizations (ENEMO) is an international network consisting of 22 leading domestic monitoring organizations from 17 countries of Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia. ENEMO operates in full compliance with international standards for international elections observation. ENEMO member organizations have monitored more than 200 national elections and trained more than 200,000 observers. To date, ENEMO has monitored 15 election processes in seven countries.