ELECTIONS

Monitoring mission in Ukraine

In the period from February 10 to March 31 European Network of Elections Monitoring Organizations – ENEMO realized a monitoring mission on parliamentary elections in Ukraine held on March 26 2006.

CeSID, as one of the founders and members of ENEMO took an active part in all activities of the mission. Apart from in-country support activities, CeSID provided 2 out of 8 Core Members of the mission, 6 out of 42 Long Term Observers (LTO), as well as 22 out of 330 members of the team of Short Term Observers (STO). With such representation, CeSID became proportionally the most numerous organization within the mission. The main objectives of the mission were monitoring and evaluation of the pre-elections process, as well as of the course of the election day of the parliamentary elections in Ukraine . The findings and official report made by ENEMO network can be downloaded here (PDF 187kb).

The final press conference was held at Media Center in Kiev . Peter Nowtony, secretary general of ENEMO and chief of the mission, Marko Ivkovic CeSID's official deputy, and Ljilja Sibanova, director of NVO Golos ( Russia ). On this occasion an official report was presented to the journalists.

National Democratic Institute (NDI) and Freedom House supported the mission, and all organizations provided, apart from running costs, observers at all levels free of charge.

CeSID's people who took part in the mission:

• Core Team: Radivoje Grujic - CeSID's office in Loznica - Logistics Officer and Dragan Tomic - CeSID's office in Belgrade - Logistics Officer,
• Long Term Observers (LTO) : Jelena Keserovic - Belgrade Office, Moidrag Manasijevic - Vranje Office, Tibor Kis - Sombor Office, Ivan Ivkovic - Belgrade Office, Snezana Dedovic - Belgrade Office and Marko Dosljak - Nis office,
• Short Term Observers (STO) : Marko Ivkovic – director of CeSID's network, Nasja Veljkovic - Central Office, Miodrag Milosavljevic - Central Office, Ivana Radic - Central Office, Milos Hrnjaz - Central Office, Marko Barudzija - Belgrade Office, Zorica Perovic – Belgrade Office, Ana Milojevic - Belgrade Office, Stevan Bekvalac – Sombor Office, Borislav Lojpur - Novi Sad Office, Violeta Veselinov – Pancevo Office, Gordana Aleksic – Pancevo Office, Vuk Konjikusic – Kraljevo Office, Milica Sretenovic – Loznica Office, Marija Karapetrovic – Cacak Office, Muamer Halilovic – Novi Pazar, Milos Stojadinovic – Nis Office, Nevica Stojadinovic – Nis Office, Aleksandar Mihajlovic – Jagodina Office, Darko Zejak – Jagodina Office, Aleksandar Dimic – Smederevo Office, Ivana Kostic – Smederevo Office.