Project: “Monitoring of Institutional Response against Election Irregularities Project”

Period of implementation: July 2008 - June 2009

Project Objectives:

• to increase the confidence of the citizens in the legal system and judiciary;
• to trigger the need of legal and institutional reforms;
• to contribute towards a fair and democratic election process;
• to address the institutional and legal shortcomings

Project activities:

• Monitoring of the court trials,
• Preparation of an Interim Narrative Report,
• Preparation of Interim Progress Report (based on the information gathered from the questionnaires in a period July - December 2008,
• Round table
• Preparation of Final report which presents data gathered in the monitoring process, for each trial in the sphere of Election Irregularities
• Press conference for presentation of outcome of the project and its dissemination.

In the Final Report will be included analysis of the all data from the questionnaires filled by trial monitors of the cases against alleged perpetrators of Election Irregularities.

Project: Monitoring the prosecution of the Local Election, 2005 related trials

Period of implementation: July - December, 2005

Project objectives:

• Assessment of the proclaimed determination of the Government and other authorities to prosecute the perpetrators who had committed the crimes against the elections and voting, during the Local election, 2005
• Identification of the problems that the judiciary faces while pursuing the perpetrators of the local election crimes and proposing legal and institutional reforms;
• Achieving successful suppression of the local election irregularities, as well as ensuring conditions for holding fair and democratic election

Project activities

• Identification of the irregularities during the local elections in 2005 and their monitoring in the pre-trial procedure and the criminal procedure more>>>
• Observation of the judicial cases of the criminal acts against the elections and the voting more>>>
• Cooperation with relevant institutions (Public Prosecutor offices, courts etc.);
• Preparation of the Final report for the situation of the election irregularities, including the conclusions and recommendations for alteration of the electoral legislation.

Contact

Bekim Hoxha – Project Coordinator

e-mail: bekimh@all4fairtrials.org.mk

tel: +389 2 3215263

Donors:

OSCE Mission in Skopje

Foundation Open Society Institute - Macedonia