A group of 34 election observers from the European Union Election Observation Mission (EU EOM) have been deployed from Kathmandu to all regions of the country on Thursday.
The 34 long-term EU observers arrived in Kathmandu on Sunday and went through a comprehensive three-day briefing. The group is lead by Chief Observer Eva Joly, a member of the European Parliament.
“Our methodology with long term observation is that we don’t only come for the Election Day and the counting,” said Deputy Chief Observer Tania Marques. “We are coming here at this stage to observe status of all the electoral processes.”
Over the next weeks, the observers will meet election officials, candidates and representatives of civil society, and will report their observations back to Kathmandu.
“We will be meeting the election administration on local level to see how their preparation is going,” said Bjorn Tedman, an observer from Sweden who will be based in Gorkha, Tanahu and Lamjung. “We will also talk with the candidates and ask if they have any concerns and if they have been able to campaign freely.”
In addition to the 34 observers who set out today, a group of 40 short term observers will join the mission in order to observe voting, counting and the tabulation of results. Additionally, the mission will also send out a delegation of members of the European Parliament and locally-recruited short term observers from EU member states embassies to observe the electoral process. In total, the EU EOM will comprise over 100 Observers from 26 member states as well as Norway and Switzerland.
source: nepalnews.com
source: nepalnews.com
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