11/05/2011 Election observation
Strasbourg 11.05.2011 – A five-member delegation of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), led by Kerstin Lundgren (Sweden, ALDE), will carry out a pre-electoral mission to Turkey on 17-18 May, ahead of the parliamentary elections on 12 June 2011, to assess the electoral framework and campaign.
The delegation will meet the Speaker of the Parliament, representatives of political parties, the Chair of the Supreme Board of Elections, the Head of the EU delegation in Turkey, as well as the Turkish delegation to PACE. Talks are also scheduled with representatives of civil society and the media.
A full 30-member delegation from the Assembly will be in the country on the day of the vote to observe the elections.
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A press conference is scheduled on Wednesday 18 May at 1 pm at the Ankara Gordion Hotel (Tunalı Hilmi Caddesi, Büklüm sok. No: 59 Kavaklıdere, Ankara).
Members of the delegation:
Head of the delegation: Kerstin Lundgren (Sweden, ALDE)
Latchezar Toshev (Bulgaria, EPP/CD)
Arcadio Díaz Tejera (Spain, SOC)
Sergey Markov (Russian Federation, EDG)
Andrej Hunko (Germany, UEL)
Contacts:
Vladimir Dronov, Interparliamentary Co-operation and Election Observation Department, mobile: +33 (0)6 63 49 37 92