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CEMI within the ENEMO mission in Ukraine
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ENEMO (European Network of Election Monitoring Organizations) is an association of civil NGOs from 16 Balkan, USSR and SEE countries. These NGOs are the leading organizations in their countries within Election monitoring area. All together, they have monitored over 110 national and international Elections and trained over 100 000 observers.
The aim of ENEMO association in Ukraine was to support international social interests and democracy in this country, as well as to improve Election conditions and political surroundings. Besides this aim, ENEMO was supposed to give precise and independent/objective report on the Elections. The mission has evaluated the Election process in accordance to international standards for democratic Elections and tried out Ukrainian Election Law and Constitution. ENEMO has recognized that it will be the people of Ukraine that would judge the credibility of Election process.
During the process of Election monitoring in Ukraine, ENEMO network has closely cooperated with National Democratic Institute (NDI) and Freedom House. These two very big international NGOs, which promote development of democratic institutions all over the world (and are very experienced in the field of Election monitoring) gave their financial, technical and administrative support for ENEMO mission in Ukraine.
ENEMO mission in Ukraine has officially started on 15th of October 2004. 50 people (very experienced observers) have been engaged as long term observers (LTO), and their mission was to observe and analyze the pre-election phase in Ukraine, starting from 19th of October 2004. They were split in every bigger Ukrainian county and monitored the first round of Elections (on the 31st of October) at almost 300 pooling stations all across this country. Within this group, there were 3 members of The Monitoring Center CEMI.
For the second round of Elections on 21st of November ENEMO had 1000 short term observers (STO) in the field, which were coordinated by 50 LTOs, what makes ENEMO the largest international monitoring mission in Ukraine, larger than OSCE mission (650 observers). Observers have monitored the electoral process on more than 5000 pooling stations giving an immeasurable contribution to development of democratization in Ukraine. Among other observers, there were 20 observers from Montenegro - CEMI and CDT. CEMI's observers monitored Elections in Thernopile, whereas CDT monitored in Lutsk.
The second round of Elections was repeated on 26th of December 2004. This time observers from CEMI and CDT both monitored electoral procedure in Lutsk, in the North-West of Ukraine. Even though all observers were more than experienced in Election monitoring, they al went through basic training about Ukrainian electoral system, as well as the basic training on the political structure of this country, and the only smaller problem they had is lack of Ukrainian language knowledge.
According to the results of the Ukrainian Central Electoral Commission, based on results of 99.9% of the electoral body, Viktor Jushchenko won the Elections with 52.01 % of votes, whereas Viktor Janukovich had 44.18 %. 2.34 % of voters voted against both candidates. The same source says that 537 481 citizens voted at home, 12 522 voted through voting ballots for absent people.
List of NGOs that participated in the ENEMO mission in Ukraine:
- APD Pro Democracy Association, Romania
- Association for Participatory Democracy, Moldova
- The Monitoring Center CEMI, Montenegro
- Center for Democratic Transition CDT, Montenegro
- Center for Free Elections and Democracy CeSID, Serbia
- Coalition for Democracy and Civil Society, Kyrgyzstan
- Council for the Protection of Human Rights and Freedoms, Kosovo
- Election Monitoring Center, Azerbaijan
- European Institute for Democracy, Poland
- For the Sake of Civil Society, Azerbaijan
- GONG, Croatia
- Its Your Choice, Armenia
- International Society for Fair Elections and Democracy (ISFED), Georgia
- Most, Macedonia
- Obscianske oko, Slovakia
- Partnership, Belarus
- Republican network of Independent Monitors, Kazakhstan
- Viasna, Belarus
- Voice, Russia.
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