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Expert Forum has released the www.votcorect.ro platform for the local elections that will take place on September 27. The website includes several sections with explanations of the main rules regarding the electoral campaign, voters’ registration, voting day or appeals. Moreover, our team offers answers to frequently asked questions about the organisation of the electoral process ···
Expert Forum has released an online platform containing all the candidates for the 2020 local elections, including the data published by the Central Electoral Bureau. The platform allows to search candidates by name, constituencies, political parties or other relevant criteria. The database is available on www.votcorect.ro/candidati-locale. The database centralizes a number of 256.042 candidatures for ···
Expert Forum has released the first monitoring report on the electoral campaign financing for the local elections to be held on 27 September 2020. The report aims to draw some conclusions in regard to the financing of the electoral campaigns, based on the analysis of electoral legislation related to political financing, after the investigation of ···
EFOR is currently the Civil Society Pillar Focal Point in Romania for Community of Democracies (CoD), an intergovernmental organization. In this capacity we assisted CoD in its internal reflection about democratic stability and resilience. Sorin Ioniţă authored the 2020 report for the Governing Council al CoD. It includes a state-of-the-art in the debate on democratic ···
EFOR joined a series of well known public figures and requested from the Romanian authorities a strong position in support of the Belarus civil society and human rights. Dear President Klaus Iohannis, Dear Prime Minister Ludovic Orban, Dear Minister of Foreign Affairs Bogdan Aurescu, 30 years ago, the Romanians experienced a bloody revolution, and ···
Even though election observation was affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, it remains an essential part for the credibility and integrity of the electoral process. In policy brief 89, Expert Forum explores varied experiences from several countries and proposes a list of good practice for the domestic election observation organizations. The purpose of this brief is to ···
Expert Forum (EFOR) is pleased to invite you to an international debate about the effects of COVID-19 pandemic on the election monitoring activity. The purpose of the event is to exchange experience and good practice on how to organize the election observation and to better understand how some of the countries that already organized elections coped ···
EFOR is focal point for Romania during the Romanian presidency of the Community of Democracies, 2019-2021. CoD is an initiative of the former foreign ministers Madeleine Albright and Bronisław Geremek, launched in 2000 through the Warsaw Declaration on democratic principles and practices. Last week on Jun 26, 2020 the 20th Anniversary Conference of the Warsaw Declaration and the CoD ···
Expert Forum is pleased to invite you to the online debate Organizing elections during the pandemic. The scenarios of political parties that will take place on Thursday, June 4, between at 3 and 5 p.m. (Bucharest time). The event is organized in partnership with the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) and CEELI Institute and ···
