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Maldives: Vote Buying Challenges Elections in a Troubled Muslim Democracy

By on 10 April 2013 in Accountability, Asia Pacific, Politics and government

As the Maldives heads for presidential elections in September this year, vote buying, a culture of misuse of state resources, concerns about transparency and integrity of judicial and electoral processes, and unprecedented levels of political polarisation pose immense challenges to this troubled democracy, a pre-election assessment  by Transparency Maldives has found. Vote buying One of [...]

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Armenia: Fighting back at the ballot box

By on 8 April 2013 in Europe and Central Asia, Politics and government

On March 15th the Supreme Court in Armenia annulled the election results from Precinct No. 17/5 in Artashat, where I spent an unforgettable day in mid-February watching ballots being stuffed while I was physically pinned to a wall by a group of thugs. I never thought such overt cheating like ballot stuffing would happen. After [...]

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Venezuela: The State as Election Campaign Headquarters

By on 28 March 2013 in Americas, Anti-corruption movement, Politics and government

Lea este post en español aquí. When is a presidential election free and fair? During the 2012 presidential campaign in Venezuela, the Alerta Electoral bulletin recorded numerous instances of public resources being used to support the president’s successful election campaign. For example, in July 2012 Alerta Electoral – which is produced by a coalition of [...]

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Malaysian Prime Minister signs Election Integrity Pledge

By on 27 February 2013 in Accountability, Asia Pacific, Politics and government

Now that the Prime Minister has signed Transparency International Malaysia’s Election Integrity Pledge (on 20 February), it is time for all of Malaysia’s political parties to step up to the plate and join the ruling party in upholding the Election Offences Act – an act that was passed in 1954. The integrity of elections is [...]

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Fiji: Participatory democracy in action – a constitution of the people

By on 9 November 2012 in Asia Pacific, People power, Politics and government

“For the first time, everyone will have a voice”. Fiji’s Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama’s plan to involve everyone in the formulation of Fiji’s fourth constitution has been translated into action. Consultations with political parties, non-governmental organisations and citizens are taking place all over Fiji to draft a new constitution by 2013. Transparency International Fiji has [...]

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Romania: Code of Conduct for Romanian MPs

By on 8 November 2012 in Accountability, Europe and Central Asia, Politics and government

Romania has recently been hit with a series of corruption scandals which have gravely affected the parliament’s image. In September 2012 Transparency International Romania (TI-Ro) with the help of two other NGOs specialized in the field, Pro Democratia and Centre for Legal Resources put forward a proposal for a Code of Conduct in the agenda [...]

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Voting in Ukraine – The people lose in elections that were hardly free and fair

By on 1 November 2012 in Accountability, Europe and Central Asia, Politics and government

The elections here did not go well. Even the enormous expenses of installing cameras at polling stations didn’t provide transparent voting. Constant problems with connections, lack of experience in using of such systems and the rush in preparation for the elections turned the idea into a new kind of entertainment. Not surprisingly, the independent election [...]

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Georgian elections: international monitors help defuse tension

By on 24 October 2012 in Europe and Central Asia, Politics and government

By the early hours of October 2, polling stations had closed and the Georgian parliamentary elections appeared to have passed without any major violations. Official ballot counts were nearly complete when one of our observers reported that armed special forces had stormed several polling stations in the west of the country, demanded that observers leave [...]

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On the frontline against corruption in Europe

By on 20 September 2012 in Europe and Central Asia, European Union, Politics and government

Last Friday, Cobus de Swardt, Managing Director of the global Transparency International Secretariat in Berlin, was visiting Brussels for an interview in the Euronews show “On the Frontline” (OTFL) for a special edition titled “Is there a corruption crisis in Europe?” which aired yesterday. The discussions around this show started already back in August when OTFL [...]

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Who is speaking on Venezuelan TV – the president or the candidate?

By on 7 August 2012 in Americas, Politics and government

The following blog post was written by Alejandro Salas, Transparency International’s Regional Director for the Americas, and Natalie Baharav, Communications Officer at Transparency International. Lea este artículo en español aquí. Presidential elections are coming up in Venezuela and it is essential for its citizenry to know when President Hugo Chavez speaks as the president, and when he [...]

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