International Electoral Forum underway in Minsk

The International Electoral Forum is underway in Minsk, BelTA has learned.

The International Electoral Forum will be running in Minsk from 18 to 20 September. The forum will open up new opportunities for exchanging best practices, expertise and ideas, and will become a platform for open discussions between professionals and all those interested in electoral law and technology. The forum will be centered around security and digitalization of the electoral process, civil society participation in elections, and legal education of young people.

“We will hold a general electoral discussion. In other words, our counterparts will share information about the electoral events that were held in their countries,” said Chairman of the Central Electoral Commission (CEC) of Belarus Igor Karpenko. “We will discuss such an aspect of the youth policy as the electoral law and electoral technologies. We will map out our vision of how to improve election observation mechanisms,” he added.

On 18 September, the CEC of Belarus will host delegations from Turkmenistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. The forum will include a meeting of the CIS Advisory Council of Heads of Electoral Bodies, and an international scientific and practical conference “International Standards in the Electoral Process: Experience and Development Prospects”. The forum will wrap up with the youth project Vybirai.BY in the Stolitsa Mall on 20 September.