Empowering local monitors has its risks and shortcomings, but if conditions for proper domestic election monitoring are missing this in itself should constitute a very grave sign that things are not well. The Mission needs to be on the look-out at the state of domestic monitoring in Azerbaijan and report on it in its final submissions. In Georgia civil society has shown in 2012 that domestic election observation works. In fact the role played by the international election monitors on that occasion was clearly secondary. A different approach to monitoring the forthcoming Presidential election in Georgia may therefore be appropriate, and should be considered even at this late hour.
Posted on: Fri, 06 Sep 2013 09:16:54 +0000
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