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Canada,US and Europe join to form Global Democracy Initiative
Meeting in Washington, the US Association of Former Members of Congress (FMC), the Canadian Association of Former Parliamentarians (CAFP) and the Former Members of the European Parliament Association, established the Global Democracy Initiative (GDl). Building on five successful years utilizing the unique skills of former legislators in overseas election observation as the International Election Monitors Institute, the partners have decided to expand the scope and outreach of the program by creating GDl. The mission of this new initiative is to promote democracy around the world and to increase our portfolio of activities from election monitoring to working with...
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From 2 September through 10 September 2007, members of IEMI participated in an election observation mission to Morocco under the organization of the National Democratic Institute (NDI). The group, composed of two Americans, three Canadians, one Dutch former legislator, and one French former legislator, joined an international delegation of 52 observers from 19 countries. On election day, 7 September, the international delegation deployed to 12 regions in the country and visited 375 polling stations. In addition, observers participated in briefings and meetings before election day to ascertain the political and legal climate in which the Moroccan electorate could cast...
Read MoreCase Study: Indonesia, 2006
An IEMI team of former legislators traveled to Aceh, Indonesia’s second poorest province, less than two years after the deadly tsunami had devastated the region. The mission consisted of helping a dozen political parties (established or emerging, local or national) improve their organizational skills in order to become competitive in the next election. Over four days of sessions, the team covered such themes as organization, political identity, and positioning and solidification of a political party in a well-defined context. The goal of the training sessions was to help the representatives of each party in their efforts to better plan the organization of the next...
Read MoreCase Study: Ukraine, 2006
As a follow up to an election monitoring project initiated by USAFMC for the 2004 Ukrainian Presidential Election, IEMI sent two multiparty delegations of former legislators to Ukraine in 2006 as pre-election observers during the local and parliamentary elections campaign period. The delegations were deployed in February and March 2006, in preparation for the elections held on 26 March 2006. Focusing primarily on the Kharkiv oblast, the delegations met with local government officials, mass media representatives, political party representatives, candidates, NGOs, and individuals interested or involved in the election process. Both delegations delivered a unified message...
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