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RINUTBERRIVKIAEW

     DarkoAleksov                     we propose
                                      introduction
Manager of the civic                  of open lists
  association MOST

      Mr. Aleksov, you are the head   legal provisions, which follows the    come from somebody who is neu-
of the civic association MOST,        general trend of legal regulation      tral in the process and is free from
which has for 13 years been ob-       of the by-laws in order to provide     party-related political motives.
serving the electoral processes,      higher guarantee for the preven-       For a start, what are your recom-
in the Republic of Macedonia and      tion of irregularities. However,       mendations based on?
abroad, as part of the election ob-   we can witness that the law is vio-
servation missions of the OSCE/       lated, i.e. there is a lack of imple-     D. Aleksov:As it is stated in the
ODIHR and ENEMO. This experi-         mentation of the law and lack or       very document, the recommenda-
ence gives you a serious credibility  inconsistency in sanctioning elec-     tions are based on 13 years of expe-
in the discussion on the subject.     tion irregularities.                   rience of MOST in monitoring the
What is your general assessment                                              election processes in the Repub-
of the previous elections in Mac-            In anticipation of the next     lic of Macedonia and abroad, and
edonia that you have observed?        parliamentary elections in our         on building the capacity of civil
                                      country, announced for April 2016,     society organizations for domes-
   D. Aleksov: Overall, Macedonia     MOST came up with a number of          tic monitoring of elections. After
has a good electoral legislation,     recommendations. To me they            each election process MOST issues
even at times there are too many      have a special value because they      a comprehensive report on the

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