16/04/2025 | Election observation
At the 20th European Conference of Electoral Management Bodies (EMBs), held in Vilnius, Lithuania, on 15–16 April, a delegation from the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) emphasised the need for closer co-operation between parliaments and electoral management bodies to secure...
11/04/2025 | Election observation
A five-member delegation of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), led by Iulian Bulai (Romania, ALDE), will make a pre-electoral visit to Poland on 14-15 April to assess the election campaign and political climate prior to the presidential election on 18 May. In Warsaw, the...
04/04/2025 | Election observation
A four-member delegation* from the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), led by Simone Billi (Italy, ECPA), made a pre-electoral visit to Albania on 3-4 April 2025 to assess the electoral campaign and the political climate ahead of the parliamentary elections on 11 May 2025. The...
31/03/2025 | Election observation
A five-member delegation of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), led by Simone Billi (Italy, ECPA), will make a pre-electoral visit to Albania on 3-4 April to assess the election campaign and political climate prior to the parliamentary elections on 11 May. In Tirana, the...
10/02/2025 | Election observation
Kosovo voters demonstrated their commitment to democracy by voting peacefully and without tensions during the 9 February 2025 elections to the Assembly of Kosovo, according to the observers’ delegation of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). Members of local election...
29/01/2025 | Election observation
PACE today launched a Parliamentary Alliance for Free and Fair Elections, a ground-breaking initiative uniting some 75 Assembly members and institutional representatives to safeguard electoral integrity and strengthen democratic processes across Europe. The Alliance was established to address...
22/01/2025 | Election observation
Concluding its pre-electoral visit to Pristina, a delegation from the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) commended the good preparation for the upcoming elections to the Assembly of Kosovo despite growing polarisation and called on all stakeholders to act responsibly and...
21/01/2025 | Election observation
“The so-called presidential elections arranged in Belarus for 26 January 2025 are set to be a sham that, again, deny the right of the Belarusian people to participate in free and fair elections,” says PACE’s General Rapporteur for a Democratic Belarus, Ryszard Petru (Poland, ALDE). “The...
13/01/2025 | Election observation
A three-member delegation of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), led by Petra Bayr (Austria, SOC), will make a pre-electoral visit to Kosovo* on 16-17 January to assess the election campaign and political climate prior to the elections to the Assembly of Kosovo on 9...
11/12/2024 | Election observation
PACE member Lord Blencathra (United Kingdom, EC/DA) unveiled PACE's newly-created Network of Election Observers during the 2024 Annual Implementation Meeting for Endorsers of the Declaration of Principles for International Election Observation. The event, hosted by ODIHR in Gdańsk, Poland, was...
29/11/2024 | Election observation
A report on PACE’s observation of the 26 October parliamentary elections in Georgia, prepared by Iulian Bulai (Romania, ALDE), was made public yesterday following its approval by the Bureau of the Assembly at a meeting in Luxembourg. Mr Bulai led a 32-member, cross-party delegation from the...
29/11/2024 | Election observation
According to the election observation report presented by Petra Bayr (Austria, SOC) to the PACE Standing Committee meeting in Luxembourg, the presidential election and constitutional referendum in the Republic of Moldova were conducted in a highly polarised political environment, “marked by...