The conference “Court Defense of Electoral Rights” launched

The 18th annual conference of the Association of the European Electoral Authorities launched today in Yerevan. The conference the main subject of which is the “Court Defense of Electoral Rights” will last till the 5th of September.
More than 150 representatives of around 30 countries and different international organizations have arrived to Yerevan for taking part in the conference.

The Association of the European Electoral Authorities has been established in 1991 Hungary, Budapest. The association comprises 23 member-states Albania, Azerbaijan, Byelorussia, Bosnia and Hertsegovina, Bulgaria, Turkey, Latvia, Lithuania, Croatia, Armenia, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Rumania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Georgia, Ukraine.

Each year in one of the mentioned member-states the Association conference is being held. Armenia which is a member of the Association since 1999 has taken up the responsibility of holding the conference in Yerevan; it means that Armenia will take the chair of the Association for one year.

The conference is aimed at discussing issues on exchanging experiences, and electoral processes, as well as at establishing opportunities for the member-states’ electoral authorities to cooperate with each other.

The subjects to be discussed at the conference are “The role of the Courts at the electoral processes”, “The resumption of the rights of active elections and the court defense”, “The international experience of using the sociology during the electoral processes”, “The correct formation of the list of the voters”.

The Armenian conference is organized by the RA Central Electoral Commission and the Association of the European Electoral Authorities by the support of the OSCE Yerevan office and the Armenian branch of the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES).