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Joint mission concludes that meaningful stakeholder participation and access to all relevant electoral materials are needed for a comprehensive review

A team of international election experts has recommended a broad review of the electoral process in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) with the meaningful participation of all electoral stakeholders and access to all relevant electoral materials. The team, from the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) and the National Democratic Institute (NDI), was in the DRC from Jan. 5 to 13 assessing the feasibility of conducting a review of the results of the Nov. 28 legislative elections.

People's Assembly ballots

Voter enthusiasm was again a dominant feature of this third round of voting in the Egyptian People’s Assembly elections. Three credible rounds of polling now raise the likely prospect that Egypt’s next parliament will reflect the will of the people, NDI said in a statement released in Cairo.

NDI deployed 32 accredited “witnesses” from 16 countries in Asia and the Pacific, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East and North America to observe this third and final round of elections. Voters in the governorates of Dakahliya, Gharbiya, Matrouh, Minya, New Valley, North Sinai, Qalubiya, Qena and South Sinai went to the polls on Jan. 3 and 4. The delegation visited nearly 200 polling stations in seven of the nine governorates. The mission’s objective was to witness impartially the pre-election environment and election-day proceedings and to demonstrate the interest of the international community in the development of democratic political processes in Egypt.