A total of 490 international observers and some 1,913 observers from Ukrainian national non-governmental organizations will be monitoring the local elections in Ukraine, according to Central Election Commission data on the number of official observers accredited to monitor Ukraine’s local elections that it published on its Web site.
The CEC registered 365 observers from international NGOs, including 96 from the Committee for Open Democracy, 65 from the CIS-EMO Election Monitoring Organization, 65 from the international NGO For Fair Elections, 29 from the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America, 24 from the SILBA International NGO, 23 from the Congress of local and regional authorities of the Council of Europe, 23 from the Elections and Democracy Election Monitoring Association, 23 from the Elections and Democracy international association of election observers, ten from the Inter-Parliamentary Assembly of CIS member-states, eight from the National Democratic Institute for International Relations, four from the European Parliament, four from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, three from the European Committee for Human Rights, one from the International Republican Institute, and one from the Konrad Adenauer Foundation.
A total of 134 observers from foreign states will monitor Ukraine’s elections, including 36 from Poland, 29 from Russia, 28 from the United States, 19 from Hungary, five from Germany, five from France, four from Canada, three from the Netherlands, three from Turkey, one from Kazakhstan and one from Britain.
In addition, the CEC registered 1,913 official observers from Ukrainian organizations, including 1,151 from the Ukrainian NGO Opora Civil Network, 645 from the Committee of Voters of Ukraine, and 117 from the Front for Change.
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