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JOINT PARLIAMENTARY SEMINAR ON THE MISUSE OF ADMINISTRATIVE RESOURCES DURING ELECTORAL PROCESSES
Our expert worked as a general rapporteur for theĀ seminarĀ on āMisuse of administrative resources during electoral processes: A Major Challenge for Democratic Electionsā organized by theĀ Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of EuropeĀ (PACE) and theĀ Venice Commission of the Council of EuropeĀ in cooperation with theĀ Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe,Ā the Parliament of Albania and the Parliament of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The seminar for parliamentarians of Albania and Bosnia and HerzegovinaĀ built on the LondonĀ conference and further contributed to the work of the Council of Europe on reinforcing the legal mechanisms and international standards fighting against these recurrent problems. The action was in line with PACE and Council of Europe recommendations on the administration of electoral processes, and the Action Plans for Albania and for BiH 2015-2017. Both countries are member states of the Council of Europe and part of the ten-member States subject to the PACE monitoring procedure, which involves on-going dialogue with the authorities, regular reports and occasional debates on a stateās progress in honoring its obligations and commitments to the Council of Europe standards.
The participants included members of the Parliament of Albania and members of the House of Representatives and the House of Peoples of BiH; members of the Assemblies of the two entities (Republika Srpska and Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina) and BrÄko District of Bosnia and Herzegovina; members of the PACE having chaired Assemblyās election observation delegations in different countries or participated in election observation missions; members of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe having chaired Congress election observation delegations in different countries or participated in election observation missions; members and experts of the Venice Commission having prepared reports on different aspects of misuse of administrative resources during electoral processes; representatives of the OSCE Mission to Albania and BiH and the European Union Delegations to Albania and BiH; representatives of local NGOs, development institutions, experts and researchers with considerable experience in the observation of elections as well as media representatives.
The most important points that are related to the issue of misuse of administrative resources are:
Quality of law
Application of law
The political will by political forces, particularly when they are in power
Proper control of the application of the law
The efficient and transparent system of sanctions
Informed public properly about the application of sanctions
The programme of the seminar can be found hereĀ e-ppsd18_4-joint-parliamentary-seminar-on-misuse-of-administrative-resources_tirana_april-2018_v22-1-