News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Montenegro State Election Commission Chair meets municipal electoral commissions
Publishing date: 26 June 2020
A delegation led by Aleksa Ivanović, Chair of the State Election Commission, and including Darko Brajović, National Programme Officer at the OSCE Mission to Montenegro, met with representatives of municipal election commissions. The meetings aimed to review election readiness, voting procedures, accessibility of polling stations, and new challenges in administering elections during the pandemic.
ODIHR opens special election assessment mission in North Macedonia
Publishing date: 22 June 2020
SKOPJE, 22 June 2020- The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) today formally opened a special election assessment mission (SEAM) for the 15 July 2020 early parliamentary elections in North Macedonia. The deployment follows an official invitation from the authorities of North Macedonia...
Serbian parliamentary elections well run, but ruling party dominance and lack of media diversity limited voters’ choice, international observers say
Publishing date: 22 June 2020
BELGRADE, 22 June 2020 – While contestants in Serbia’s parliamentary elections were able to campaign and fundamental freedoms were respected, voter choice was limited by the governing party’s overwhelming advantage and the promotion of government policies by most major media outlets, international observers from the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) concluded in a statement of their preliminary findings and conclusions today...
ODIHR opens special election assessment mission in Poland
Publishing date: 16 June 2020
WARSAW, 16 June 2020 – The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) today formally opened a special election assessment mission (SEAM) for the 28 June presidential election in Poland. The deployment follows an official invitation from the Polish authorities...
ODIHR opens special election assessment mission in Serbia
Publishing date: 8 June 2020
BELGRADE, 8 June 2020 – The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) today formally opened a special election assessment mission (SEAM) for the 21 June parliamentary elections in Serbia. The deployment follows an official invitation from the Serbian authorities...
OSCE PA statement on electoral reform in Albania
Publishing date: 6 June 2020
COPENHAGEN, 6 June 2020 – Welcoming the agreement on electoral reform in Albania, OSCE Parliamentary Assembly President George Tsereteli, Special Representative on South East Europe Mark Pritchard and Secretary General Roberto Montella issued the following joint statement today...
OSCE PA human rights leaders call for open campaign in advance of presidential election in Belarus
Publishing date: 2 June 2020
COPENHAGEN, 2 June 2020- Following reports of the detention of numerous political activists engaged in activities related to the upcoming presidential election in Belarus, the leaders of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly's human rights committee, Chair Kyriakos Hadjiyianni (Cyprus), Vice-Chair Michael Link (Germany), and Rapporteur and Kari Henriksen (Norway), released the following statement...