The need for physical distancing during this COVID-19 pandemic has raised the need for innovative campaign methods to be developed by election contestants because conventional campaign methods such as rallies, public meetings, etc. are prohibited in some jurisdictions. Distant and online election campaigning may be seen as restrictive to both contestants and voters alike due to physical and technological barriers that appear. To what degree is this true?
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The open-list proportional representation (OLPR) system, as opposed to the closed-list version, allows voters to pick their favourite candidate from the party list while retaining proportionality of the election results. In the Asia & the Pacific region, this system is used in among others; Fiji, Indonesia and Sri Lanka. What are the upsides, downsides and unintended consequences of this system? Follow the lecture and find out!
You are welcome to join an international webinar organized by the Election Commission of India and A-WEB India.
The name of the event is Issues, Challenges and Protocols for Conducting Elections during COVID-19: ’Sharing Country Experiences’ which will take place on 21 September at 3 PM (IST). During this webinar, important experts will share experiences and know-how on election management during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Elections during pandemic worried many parties, including South Korea, which was considered successful in holding elections amid the pandemic on 15 April 2020. At that time, the election organizers were concerned over voter turnout on polling day. To ensure a sense of security from Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), the election was held with a strict COVID-19 protocol, which impacted on the swelling of the election costs nearly doubled.
The House of Representatives and the Department of the Interior and Local Government are keen on beginning charter change discussions while the country is mitigating the effects of COVID-19. But what changes does the 1987 Constitution actually need? And how has the pandemic exacerbated key constitutional issues?
The Indonesian Coordinating Ministry for Politics, Law, and Security, the Corruption Eradication Commission of Indonesia (KPK), the Election Supervisory Commission of the Republic of Indonesia (Bawaslu RI), the Center for Constitution Studies (PUSaKO) Faculty of Law Andalas University and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für internationale Zusammenarbeit (GiZ) will organize an International Webinar on Thursday, 25 June 2020 through Zoom Application System.
Fiji of the South Pacific has successfully contained the COVID-19 outbreak without any deaths recorded to date. The Minister for Health and Medical Services, Dr Ifereimi Waqainabete will make a presentation on the ministry’s approach used in containing the COVID-19 outbreak, and also talk about the strategies being developed for possible future outbreaks.
The Embassy of Sweden in Seoul and International IDEA are co-hosting a webinar on how to protect democracy during the outbreak of COVID-19, sharing examples and experiences from Australia, the Republic of Korea and Sweden.
Join us in this online discussion of how Indonesia's democracy is faring according to the 2019 Global State of Democracy (GSoD) Report and how the country's democracy compares to its neighbours in Southeast Asia.
The 2019 GSoD Summary Report is available in Bahasa Indonesia.
Can elections be held during a pandemic? What measures could be taken to ensure that democratic processes continue during extraordinary circumstances?
Antonio Spinelli, Senior Advisor, Asia and the Pacific programme, International IDEA, is one of the presenters.
Join the discussion on Zoom this Thursday, 30 April 2020, at 10:00 (Philippine time). Email NAMFREL today to get the Zoom link, ID, and password.
The Republic of Korea conducted major parliamentary elections on 15 April 2020 in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. According to International IDEA's data, more than 70 countries have so far postponed their elections. While the end of the pandemic is not yet in sight, countries are having to start thinking of contingency measures should their elections can no longer be postponed while the pandemic is not yet over.
The Global State of Democracy (GSoD) Report 2019 will be launched at the Bali Civil Society and Media Forum (BCSMD) in Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia on 5 December 2019. The BCSMD is part of 12th Bali Democracy Forum (BDF), organized by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Indonesia (Kemlu).
International IDEA and Perludem have the pleasure of jointly launching the Voting Technology Adoption Guide for Indonesia in Jakarta, Indonesia, on 2 December 2019.
The Bangsamoro Organic Law (BOL), enacted in accordance with the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro, function as a ‘state constitution’ for the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region. While the BOL covers all of the subject-matter that a constitution would be expected to cover, and institutions envisaged by the BOL are parliamentary or at least quasi-parliamentary, the BOL is not sufficient to provide the whole structure of a functioning autonomous region government.
International IDEA will launch a background paper on Out of Country Voting as part of a round table discussion in Bangkok, Thailand.
The Conference is co-hosted by Melanesian Spearhead Group Secretariat, the Fijian Elections Office and International IDEA.
One of the activities for implementing the Memorandum of Understanding between International IDEA and the Melanesian Spearhead Group Secretariat (MSGS) is to help MSGS review and improve their election observation methodology.
Through this training, MSGS will get acquainted with the election observation methodologies employed by other international election observer groups and on how they could review their own methodology.
The Melbourne Forum on Constitution Building is organized jointly by International IDEA and the Constitution Transformation Network at Melbourne Law School. The Melbourne Forum is an annual event that brings together practitioners and scholars from across the region to explore constitution-building themes of global importance from the perspective of states in the Asia Pacific.
International IDEA and the Consortium of Bangsamoro Civil Society (CBCS) are co-organizing a two-day workshop during the period 15-16 October 2019, on strategic planning on political party building for stakeholders in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM).
Afghanistan remains a country with a significant recent history of electoral activity and insecurity still haunts the lives of ordinary Afghans. The upcoming presidential elections will be a litmus test for the country’s progress towards stabilization and security.