Meanwhile, since early May, United Nations electoral experts from the Electoral Assistance Division have been providing technical assistance to the Lebanese authorities for the current parliamentary elections as well as support to ensure coordination among international electoral observers.

In this context, assistance provided upon the request of Governments for the conduct of free and fair elections, including assistance in the human rights aspects of elections and public information about elections, is of particular importance.

The Commission was assisted by international electoral experts, who together constituted the Joint Electoral Management Body overseeing the organization of the elections.

The Electoral Assistance Division with UNDP and the Secretariado developed a technical assistance project to assist in the holding of local elections in the country.

The Electoral Assistance Division provided an electoral management adviser as well as other experts to the new, post independence electoral management body of Timor Leste, the Secretariado Técnico de Administração Eleitoral (STAE).

These proposals are based on an assessment of the requirements for the elections in Côte d'Ivoire conducted by the Electoral Assistance Division at Headquarters in New York.

The main role of the Electoral Unit will be to support the National Electoral Commission in the organization of local elections.

For example, if a province has five seats, the five candidates with the most votes in that province are elected.

b All additional positions are temporary electoral support positions for a six month period, funded under general temporary assistance.

Welcoming the support provided by States to the electoral assistance activities of the United Nations, inter alia, through the provision of electoral experts, including electoral commission staff, and observers, as well as through contributions to the United Nations Trust Fund for Electoral Observation,

Election....election....election that could make it responsive.

9. Calls upon the Assistance Mission and the Joint Electoral Management Body to provide sufficient training to the election personnel as well as voter and civic education, with a particular focus on women, before parliamentary and local elections

10. Calls upon the Joint Electoral Management Body, with the assistance of the Assistance Mission, to provide budgetary targets for the elections, and urges the donor community to consider making further commitments to meet those targets in time

Elections take place in September and governments change in October of election years.

Yet it won that election, and then won a second parliamentary election in 2009.

During the post election protests in 2009, Gerdab published photos of protesters, and asked the Iranian public to help identify them.

b Includes 18 temporary electoral support positions for a six month period (15 national General Service staff and 3 United Nations Volunteers, all in the field), funded under general temporary assistance.

As a service to all organizations involved in elections, and in order to promote the participation of women in elections, the Electoral Assistance Division, in collaboration with the Office of the Special Adviser on Gender Issues and Advancement of Women, issued in March 2005 a handbook on women and elections.

The peaceful conduct of communal, legislative, senatorial and presidential elections, as provided for in the electoral law

At its current level, MONUC does not have the capacity to assist in providing electoral security in northern and central Katanga or to extract electoral and other United Nations personnel from those volatile areas, or from the area around Mbuji Mayi.

b Includes 25 temporary electoral support positions for a six month period (10 Field Service, 10 national General Service staff and 5 United Nations Volunteers, all in the field), funded under general temporary assistance.

Elections in the Czech Republic gives information on election and election results in the Czech Republic.

In this election, Berlusconi decided to open the door to Gianfranco Fini s right wing National Alliance, with which he founded a new group, People of Freedom the only party allied with Umberto Bossi s Northern League in an effort to ensure that the government is backed by an even stronger and more cohesive core party. The Catholics of the Union of Christian and Center Democrats and the post fascist right of Francesco Storace have left the coalition.

श र ल क क च न च न व

The Commission reminds the Government of Afghanistan and the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan of the need to ensure that these elections are held as scheduled on 18 September 2005.

In doing so, I reiterate our gratitude to all the organizations involved in making the elections possible, including the Joint Electoral Management Body, UNAMA, the United Nations Development Programme and the Afghan and international security forces.

Elections are pending in Ukraine and Moldova, and abuses normally accompanying elections are on the increase.

In his latest report on Afghanistan (A 60 224) the Secretary General announced that the United Nations will remain committed to assisting the country after the elections.

While the elections were initially seen as a success, major flaws of the Election Commission were discovered after a post electoral audit.

Iraqi parliamentary election, 2010 A parliamentary election was held in Iraq on 7 March 2010.

A total of 127 candidates competed in the election, which was also chose municipal councils.

Iraqi elections of '06.

Since elections are, in addition, generally conducted on a tight calendar, electoral assistance must be timely in order to be useful.

I cannot conclude my statement without reaffirming the fervent desire of Côte d'Ivoire to continue to receive assistance from the United Nations in organizing and holding the upcoming general elections, particularly the presidential election to be held in October of this year.

Election day refers to the day when general elections are held.

Internationally The LWV has been involved in many international initiatives to train grassroots women leaders in the political process, to provide technical assistance and training manuals to female candidates, and to observe or monitor elections.

Despite the necessity of rerunning the elections in Zvornik municipality, the elections in the Republika Srpska passed off peaceably.

An indirect presidential election was held in Greece on 3 February 2010.

b. Elections. To assess the state of planning and implementation of the electoral process and to ensure that the elections are held as scheduled

Elections. To assess the state of planning and implementation of the electoral process and to ensure that the elections are held as scheduled

It often involves assistance for institutional capacity building, economic recovery, good governance, reconciliation, rule of law, human rights and the organization of elections, among other things.

Internet voting is used in elections in Estonia.

Across the Bay writes an analysis of the Syrian involvement in the elections and the alternatives for the opposition in the case of no election

At stake right now is not who wins the next election after all, we just had an election.

The Election Question