The Elections were Conducted in a Positive Atmosphere ...

March 24, 2010

Political first: A network monitoring Arabic: the elections were conducted in a positive atmosphere

رغم تقديمها جملة توصيات وملاحظات Although presented a set of recommendations and observations

بغداد – الصباح BAGHDAD - morning

Network praised the elections in the Arab region in its initial report on the control of the voting process, which took place atmosphere where the general election.

And confirmed in its network, according to a statement issued by the Electoral Commission for elections,

The success of the systems, procedures and rules of conduct of the observers and the training of owners and the organization of the voting process inside and outside Iraq.

The report on the network, which includes more than 50 civil society organizations representing 14 countries that observers of the 79 observers and found that the voting process in general and the organization very good, except for some lapses were few polls opened on time and there was no indication to the lack of election materials in the basic or required staffing of the stations or polling stations, and that the design of polling stations, help make the voting process easily and regularly and maintain the secrecy of the vote with polling staff have the skills required to organize and implement the voting process and showed great effort in the process of counting and sorting, which lasted a long time.

The report showed extensive presence of representatives of political entities, unlike local observers at a time when the vote Assistant relatively common in polling stations, especially for illiterate voters or members of the same family and this will come the same way and election procedures adopted by the Commission.

The report noted the lack of electoral problems detected and therefore the electoral complaints were few other, with the exception of the inability of some voters to find their names on the electoral specific plants, as it is not clear procedures for resolving, as well as call centers could not connect to the telephone of the UNHCR.

The report said the elections abroad, which involved more than 55 international observers from 7 countries belonging to the network was held in an organized manner with the equipment and election materials proved angel group in election centers abroad effectiveness and skill in conducting the electoral process despite some difficulties that accompanied the process, especially in respect to the documentation of voters and the difficulty of access to some polling stations.

The report recommended improving the process of updating the voter register in the forthcoming elections and to increase the number of staff working at the polling stations and the intensification of education on how to vote for the illiterate and the definition of the complaints procedure and its importance in the electoral process and the training of polling stations, managers, stressing the need to pass a law on political parties to reduce the electoral violations in the area of election campaigns.

The network has deployed a team of 25 electoral monitoring teams, 11 of them inside Iraq included 24 observers, and 14 to control another team outside of Iraq included 55 observers.

Alsabah