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DISGRACED. Azerbaijan and the End of Election Monitoring as we know it
DISGRACED. Azerbaijan and the End of Election Monitoring as we know it

Author(s): Author Not Specified
Subject(s): Governance, Government/Political systems, Transformation Period (1990 - 2010)
Published by: ESI – European Stability Initiative
Keywords: 2013 elections in Azerbaijan; Azerbaijan democracy; ODIHR; Ilham Aliyev;
Summary/Abstract: According to the Central Election Commission of Azerbaijan, there were nearly 1,300 international observers from 50 different organisations in Azerbaijan for the October 2013 presidential elections. Forty-nine monitoring groups praised the elections as free and fair, meeting European standards. One group of international election monitors refused to go along with the praise: the election monitoring mission of ODIHR, the OSCE’s Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights. || Aliyev’s victory and its scandalous endorsement by most international monitors offer an opportunity to fix a broken system. Doing so would benefit not just Azerbaijanis, but all those who believe that democratic elections are celebrations of basic human rights, in Europe and around the world.

  • Page Count: 38
  • Publication Year: 2013
  • Language: English