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1/6/2002
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EOHR calls Parliamentary Elections Commission to accept local and international elections supervision
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27/9/2005
The Egyptian Organization for Human Rights (EOHR) calls Supreme Commission for Parliamentary Elections (SCPE) to issue a decree states NGOs and international supervisors' capability to monitor Parliamentary Elections, in which, the first stage will start in the upcoming November, in addition, monitoring process will determine counting votes and declaring results.
EOHR observed SCPE's decrees concerning schedules' re-organization, financing electoral propaganda and co-operating with state's institutions, accordingly, EOHR welcomes these procedures, -but still it doesn't fit perfectly- in which, it criticizes SCPE's ignorance to local and international elections supervision, this may repeat the same scenario of Presidential Elections -NGOs clash, and settling the situation via the judiciary, and accepting NGOs supervision lately, after many discussions, in which the situation doesn't take all these discussions, to permit the supervision.
Accordingly, EOHR calls Mahmoud Abu El-Leil, Justice Minister and Chair of SCPE to prevent any clashes between NGOs and Parliamentary Commission, in which, the Commission must issue a decree which confirm NGOs right to monitor Parliamentary Elections, in which the monitoring process guarantees a fair integrate elections, create a democratic vision for the whole process, and also brings confidence to the whole situation for all sides.
Moreover, on the upcoming elections, EOHR demands both local and international monitoring, in which it is considered a democratic approach all over the world, guarantees an integrate elections, and also doesn't degrade the state's authority. Moreover Egypt also participated in monitoring elections in Arab countries as Yemen.
On the other hand, EOHR calls SCPE to give its orders to both written or visual, private or state owned media coverage to adopt neutralization and objectivity in propagating for the upcoming elections, the commission also is obliged to monitor the candidates' self propaganda, and the spent and spare money for their propaganda.
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