Commenting for the AP, BCI’s Carlo Binda underlines the continuing lack of a central authority in Libya VALLETTA, Malta (AP) — Tens of thousands of people seeking better lives are expected to trek across deserts and board unseaworthy boats in war-torn Libya this year in a desperate effort to reach European shores by way… Read the […]
BCI consultants have a long and fond relationship with the Balkans. Both Carlo and Francesca have been engaged again on client projects in Kosovo and Macedonia so we’re paying close attention to elections this week in Macedonia. It’s complicated and messy, but worthy of scrutiny. For a comprehensive review of the background to these early parliamentary […]
This week we want to highlight a new policy paper released by International IDEA on risk management in elections. A great read for election “nerds” and a valuable resource for anyone working on electoral issues. From the IDEA website: “this Policy Paper demonstrates the importance of institutionalizing risk management in elections. It […]
A resource for international groups organizing candidate debates for a range of elected offices. Includes recent news and analysis on candidate debates. Source: Debates International | A global resource on candidate debates
The Islamist party, which has led the coalition government since the Arab Spring protests in 2011, has won the country’s parliamentary elections. Participation was relatively low at 43 percent. Source: Morocco′s ruling Islamist party win parliamentary election | Africa | DW.COM | 08.10.2016
“In any democratic development, it’s not the first elections that matter, it’s the subsequent ones,” Francesca Binda, president of Binda Consulting International, a political consulting company based in Malta, told The Media Line. “It’s not always the big steps, it’s the little ones.” Source: Moroccans Head to the Polls – The Media Line
With much of the world’s attention focused on debates between presidential and vice-presidential candidates in the United States, we wanted to highlight another set of debates in Morocco. On October 7, 2016 Moroccan voters head to the polls in the 10th parliamentary elections in 60 years. While the media are characterising this as an election […]
BCI’s President, Francesca Binda, recently returned from Jordan where she participated in the pre-election assessment organized by the National Democratic Institute and the International Republican Institute. The English statement is below. Conditions in Place for Democratic Elections in Jordan; Parliamentary Credibility Depends on Enacting Will of Voters, IRI and NDI Joint Assessment Finds Published Date: […]
Guest post: Siham Bojji is a Moroccan political expert working on democracy and development programs in the Middle East and North Africa. Francesca Binda contributed to this post. After more than a dozen years of working with political parties in Morocco and continued direct interaction with politicians in Morocco, I still have a fundamental question: what […]
Last month we invited a Labour British member of the European Parliament to tell us why UK citizens should vote to stay in the European Union. This month we invited Conservative Member of Parliament, Tom Pursglove to give us the opposite view. Mr. Pursglove is the Member of Parliament for Corby & East Northamptonshire Would you […]