11/04/2025 | Elections
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 | Elections
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 | Elections
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 | Elections
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 | Elections
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 | Elections
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 | Elections
“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 | Elections
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 | Elections
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 | Elections
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 | Elections
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...
29/11/2024 | Standing Committee
The PACE delegation that observed Bulgaria's early parliamentary elections (9 June and 27 October 2024) has deplored that “the ongoing cycle of elections has plunged Bulgaria into near-constant campaign mode, intensifying political challenges and leading to entrenched instability”. It also...