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Apr 17, 2015 News
With just over three weeks left for general elections, former US President Jimmy Carter is expected to lead a team of observers from the Carter Centre for the May 11 polls.
Carter Centre disclosed yesterday that it has launched an international election observation mission at the invitation of the government of Guyana.
“The core team of experts will be joined this week by six medium-term observers, together representing nine countries. The Centre’s observers will meet regularly with representatives of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), political party candidates, civil society organizations, the international community, and citizen election observers to assess electoral preparations and the pre-electoral environment, including election administration, campaigning, voter education, and other issues.”
They will be joined by a larger delegation of election observers in May, led by the 90-year-old Carter, who will assess the voting, counting, and tabulation processes.
“I look forward to leading our delegation to observe Guyana’s elections on May 11,” said President Carter. “The Carter Centre has a long history in Guyana and great respect for the Guyanese people. These will be the fourth elections we have observed there since 1992, and we trust they will be peaceful and inspire hope for the future.”
With the Guyana mission, the Carter Centre reaches an important milestone: its 100th election observation. The first took place in Panama in 1989 during a hotly contested race that the Centre declared fraudulent. Since then, the Centre has observed elections in 38 countries.
The Carter Centre’s election observation mission is conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Principles for International Election Observation and Code of Conduct that was commemorated at the United Nations in 2005 and has been endorsed by 49 election observation groups. The Centre assesses the electoral process based on Guyana’s national legal framework and its obligations for democratic elections contained in regional and international agreements.
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