TWO-DAYS CONFERENCE „2012 LOCAL ELECTIONS – ANAYSIS OF ELECTORAL PROCESS” ENDED
Sarajevo, April 13, 2013 – Conference under the title “2012 Local Elections – Analysis of electoral process” ended today on Jahorina. The conference was organized by the BiH Central Election Commission and it gathered around 200 participants (members of local election commissions, representatives of political parties, elected officials and foreign guests)
The topics of the conference were „Election management bodies” and „Protection of electoral right” and “Financing election campaign, legal solutions and experience of the participants at the 2012 Local Elections”.
The conclusions of the conference will be distributed, as a final document, to all election management bodies in BiH and other interested participants of the election process, and they will also be available on the web site of the BiH CEC, www.izbori.ba .The conclusions of the Conference will serve the BiH CEC to initiate improvement of electoral legislation in BiH. Some of the conclusions are:
The topics of the conference were „Election management bodies” and „Protection of electoral right” and “Financing election campaign, legal solutions and experience of the participants at the 2012 Local Elections”.
The conclusions of the conference will be distributed, as a final document, to all election management bodies in BiH and other interested participants of the election process, and they will also be available on the web site of the BiH CEC, www.izbori.ba .The conclusions of the Conference will serve the BiH CEC to initiate improvement of electoral legislation in BiH. Some of the conclusions are:
- Institute of „extraordinary elections“ to be introduced in the BiH Election Law;
- To increase monitoring of election campaign financing, and specially from the aspect of using public goods;
- To ensure financial independence of the election management bodies;
- To regulate protection of electoral right in a way to avoid three-stage procedure.