DUSHANBE, November 2, Asia-Plus – As of November 1, 231 observers from eight CIS member nations have been accredited at Tajikistan’s Central Commission for Elections and Referenda (CCER) to observe the presidential election in the republic, a follow-up report by the CIS election observation mission said.
25 long-term observers from the CIS mission have to date visited all 68 constituencies established in Tajikistan for the presidential election.
The report, in particular, says that the CIS long-term observers assess the presidential election for its compliance with principles for democratic electoral processes, as well as the country’s legislation concerining holding of presidential elections and a practice of use of this legislation by electroal commissions, work of electroal comissins at polling stations, etc.
According to the report, the CIS observers consider that Tajikistan’s legislation was projected with taking into consideration national conditions and international election standards. “At the same time, the CIS observers hold that separate provisions and norms of the Tajik election legislation require further improvement and more precise definitions,” the CIS mission’s report said.
According to the CIS observers, Tajikistan has created conditions for providing domestic observation of a process of preparation and holding of the presidential election. “All political parties that nominated their candidates for president are provided with an opportunity to present their representatives as observers,” the follow-up report said, noting that electoral commissions have not yet received any complaints about violation of the election legislation.
The report notes that 3,200,000 voting-papers for a November presidential election were printed; a part of them was printed in Russian, Uzbek and Kyrgyz. The voting-papers were published on a special paper provided with mechanism of protection against forgery. Since October 26, the voting-papers have been distributed to the district electoral commissions.
Analyzing the work on preparation of lists of voters, the CIS observers note that this work is carried out as a whole in compliance with norms of the election legislation. At the same time, the report notes that the observers have recorded instances of negligent preparation of lists of voters in some constituencies. “In some electoral commissions, the lists of voters were not signed by chairmen and secretaries of the commissions,” the report said, noting that all these shortcomings were removed immediately.
