Council for Democratic Elections
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83rd meeting of the Council for Democratic Elections
06/06/2025
Online
82nd meeting of the Council for Democratic Elections
13/03/2025
Venice, Scuola Grande di San Giovanni Evangelista
05/12/2024
Venice, Scuola Grande di San Giovanni Evangelista - The 81st meeting of the Council for Democratic Elections was held on 5 December 2024 in Venice, Italy.
The Council held an exchange of views with a representative of the Organization of American States (0AS) and invited the OAS General Secretariat, through the Department of Electoral Cooperation and Observation (DECO), to become an observer to the Council.
During this meeting, the Council approved:
• the draft Final Opinion on possible legislative solutions to conduct future electoral processes in Haiti;
• the draft Amic... read more
20/06/2024
Venice, Scuola Grande di San Giovanni Evangelista - The 80th meeting of the Council for Democratic Elections was held on 20 June 2024 in Venice, Italy. During this meeting, the Council approved:
• the draft Opinion on amendments to the Election Code which abolish gender quotas of Georgia;
• the draft Follow-up Opinion to the Joint Opinion on the draft amendments to the Election Code and to the Rules of Procedure of the Parliament of Georgia;
• the draft Interim Opinion on possible legislative solutions to conduct future electoral processes in Haiti;
• the draft Opinion ... read more
79th meeting of the Council for Democratic Elections
14/12/2023
Venice, Scuola Grande di San Giovanni Evangelista
05/10/2023
Venice, Scuola Grande di San Giovanni Evangelista - The 78th meeting of the Council for Democratic Elections was held on 5 October 2023 in Venice, Italy. During this meeting, the Council approved three draft opinions drawn up jointly by the Venice Commission and the OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR).
These draft opinions relate to amendments to the Electoral Code of Armenia and related legislation, a draft law of Ukraine restricting the participation of persons associated with certain political parties, and amendments to the Electoral Code of the Re... read more
77th meeting of the Council for Democratic Elections
08/06/2023
Venice, Scuola Grande di San Giovanni Evangelista
76th meeting of the Council for Democratic Elections
09/03/2023
Venice, Scuola Grande di San Giovanni Evangelista
75th meeting of the Council for Democratic Elections
15/12/2022
Venice, Scuola Grande di San Giovanni Evangelista
74th meeting of the Council for Democratic Elections
20/10/2022
Venice, Scuola Grande di San Giovanni Evangelista
73rd meeting of the Council of Democratic Elections
16/06/2022
Venice, Scuola Grande di San Giovanni Evangelista
14/10/2021
Venice, Scuola Grande di San Giovanni Evangelista/online - The Council for Democratic Elections (CDE) approved the draft amicus curiae Brief on the competence of the Constitutional Court of Albania regarding the validity of the local elections held on 30 June 2019 and the draft Joint Opinion on the 2020 amendments to the electoral legislation of Hungary prior to the adoption of these documents by the Commission’s plenary session.
The CDE was informed about the Venice Commission’s activities in the electoral field carried out between the 71 and 72nd meetings. The participants were e... read more
18/03/2021
The Council for Democratic Elections reviewed the following draft opinions prior to their adoption by the Venice Commission:
• Georgia - Draft joint opinion of the Venice Commission and the OSCE/ODIHR on draft amendments to the Election Code, the Organic Law on the Political Associations of Citizens and the Rules of Procedure of Parliament;
• Georgia - Draft joint opinion of the Venice Commission and the OSCE/ODIHR on draft Article 79.1 of the Electoral Code (revocation of party registration);
• Ukraine - Draft joint opinion of the Venice Commission and the OSCE/ODIHR on... read more
10/12/2020
The Council for Democratic Elections - a tripartite body comprising representatives of the Venice Commission, the Parliamentary Assembly and the Congress of the Council of Europe and dealing with electoral matters, referendums and political parties - met today - online - for the 70th time since its creation in 2002.
It approved the Principles on the use of digital technologies and elections as well a Joint Opinion on the Electoral law of Albania (Amendments to the Constitution of 30 July 2020 and to the Electoral Code of 5 October 2020).
69th meeting of the Council for Democratic Elections
07/10/2020
The 69th meeting of the CED was held online.
68th meeting of the Council for Democratic Elections
15/06/2020
The meeting was held by videoconference.
67th meeting of the Council for Democratic Elections
05/12/2019
Venice, Scuola Grande di San Giovanni Evangelista
66th meeting of the Council for Democratic Elections
10/10/2019
Venice, Scuola Grande di San Giovanni Evangelista
65th meeting of the Council for Democratic Elections
20/06/2019
Venice, Scuola Grande di San Giovanni Evangelista
Electoral issues
21/11/2002 - 22/11/2002
The Council for Democratic Elections and the Venice Commission were represented at the meeting of national correspondents on e-voting which was held in Strasbourg