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Roundtable on elections in Belarus Parliament

A round table on electoral standards and improvement of the electoral process in Belarus will take place in Minsk on 18 May 2016, with a veiw to the forthcoming Belarusian parliamentary elections in September 2016.

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe observed the October 2015 presidential election in Belarus as part of an international election observation mission together with the OSCE. It should be noted that this was the first time since 2001 that the Parliamentary Assembly had been invited to observe an election in the country.

In its election observation report, the PACE pointed out that “Belarus needs to reform its electoral legislation to ensure a thoroughly competitive political environment which is a key condition for the long-term democratic stability of the country” and concluded that the Council of Europe and its Parliamentary Assembly, through their various co-operation programmes, should continue to strive to improve the electoral legislation and its implementation in Belarus.

The event will be organised by the PACE Project Support Division in co-operation with the Venice Commission and will be hosted by the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus. This activity is organised within the Council of Europe/European Union Joint Programmatic Cooperation Framework for the Eastern Partnership countries (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Republic of Moldova, Ukraine and Belarus). It is the first event organised by the Parliamentary Assembly Project Support Division for Members of the House of Representatives and the Council of the Republic of the National Assembly of Belarus and aims at contributing to promotion of the European electoral standards, as well as to the improvement of the electoral process in Belarus.

 Agenda

 Article in the newspaper "Belarus Segodnya"

  Information from the website of the House of Representatives of Belarus

  Radio "Belarus"

  TV-Report

Minsk 18 May 2016
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