“Intolerant and provocative rhetoric, especially online, is observed”
The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), which implements an Election Observation Mission (EOM) on December 9th, has published an interim report.
It should be noted that on November 12th, the Office sent an Election Observation Mission (EOM) to Armenia. Ambassador Ursula Gecec led a team of 13 experts who are deployed in Yerevan and 24 long-term observers who have been deployed throughout the country on November 18th. Members of the mission represent 20 OSCE member states. To observe the voting day procedures, the OSCE / ODIHR has requested 250 short-term observers from participating countries.
Ursula Gecec is a highly qualified Polish diplomat. Born in Great Britain, she was educated at Oxford University. She has been in Poland, the European Parliament, and the Consul General of Poland in New York. She is also a member of the Krakow Institute for Strategic Studies.
The report contains a few references to women’s participation in the electoral process, quotas.
The authors note that all the contestants have overcome the 25% gender-defined threshold
32% of the total number of members of the Territorial Electoral Commissions. There are two women PEC chairpersons and 11 secretaries.
The report also touches upon the parliament’s mandate as well as women’s representation in the executive body.
The authors of the report remind that the last parliamentary elections took place on April 2d, 2017, as a result of which four political parties and alliances passed to the parliament.
Women’s representation in public institutions is low. At the last convocation of parliament, women occupied 19 percent of the parliamentary mandates, one of the ministerial positions, and one of the ten positions of the governor.
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