ENEMO – is a network of leading non-governmental election monitoring organizations from 18 countries of the Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia, including three EU Member States.

ENEMO annual General Assembly was held in Georgia on this weekend. Consideration of organizations applying for ENEMO membership was also on the agenda.

After Yurii Lisovskyi from Civil Network OPORA presented activities of the organization, the Assembly gave 18 votes for approval of OPORA as a new member organization.

The European Network of Election Monitoring Organizations (ENEMO) is an international network of nongovernmental organizations founded on September 29, 2001 in Opatija, Croatia. It consists of 23 leading domestic monitoring organizations from 18 countries of Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia, including three European Union countries.

ENEMO and all of its member organizations have endorsed the 2005 Declaration of Principles for International Election Observation and the Declaration of Global Principles for Non-partisan Election Observation and Monitoring by Citizen Organizations. Each ENEMO observer signed the Code of Conduct for International Election Observers.

ENEMO seeks to support the international community's interest in promoting democracy in the region by assessing electoral processes and the political environment and offering accurate and impartial observation reports. ENEMO’s international observation missions use international benchmarks and standards for democratic elections to evaluate the electoral process and the host country's legal framework.

ENEMO member organizations have monitored more than 200 national elections and trained more than 200,000 observers. To date, ENEMO has organized 20 international election observation missions to seven countries:

  • Albania (2005 parliamentary elections),
  • Georgia (2008 early presidential elections),
  • Kazakhstan (2005 presidential elections),
  • Moldova (2009 parliamentary elections),
  • Kosovo (2009 municipal elections; 2010 parliamentary elections, 2013 municipal elections),
  • Kyrgyzstan (2005 presidential elections; 2005 parliamentary elections; 2007 early parliamentary elections; 2009 presidential elections and 2010 parliamentary elections),
  • Ukraine (2004 presidential elections; 2006 parliamentary elections; 2006 mayoral elections in Chernihiv, Kirovograd and Poltava; 2007 parliamentary elections; 2010 presidential elections, 2012 parliamentary elections, 2013 parliamentary repeat elections in 5 districts and 2014 early presidential elections, 2015 regular local elections).
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The Civil Network OPORA - is a non-governmental, non-political and financially independent all-Ukrainian network of activists. We united to enhance public participation in the political process by developing and implementing models of citizen participation in the activities of state and local governments. Civil Network OPORA conducts independent election observation in Ukraine. Civic monitoring conducted by OPORA - is a type of network activity, aimed at impartial assessment of the preparation and conduct of elections, as well as preventing electoral violations through comprehensive civic action.