05/04/2013 - 08/04/2013
Podgorica - At the request of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), the Venice Commission ensures legal assistance to the Election Observation Mission of the Assembly in the context of the presidential election of 7 April 2013.
A 11-member delegation of the PACE, headed by Roman Jakič (Slovenia, ALDE), visits Montenegro from 5 to 8 April to observe the conduct of the presidential election, alongside inter alia observers from the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) of the OSCE.
The delegation is due to meet the candidates in the election or their representatives, the Chairman of the Republican Electoral Commission, civil society and media representatives, before observing the ballot on 7 April.