“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: […]
With this weekend’s EU-Turkey summit, we asked two guest bloggers, who know Turkey well, to share their thoughts on recent elections and what the victory of the Justice and Development Party means for Turkey. AKP: How Understanding Voters and the Opposition Was a Winning Formula – by Elmira Bayrasli Elections are more than […]
As former political party “hacks” from Canada the BCI team has, naturally, followed the Canadian federal election campaign very closely. We were pleased to have Paul Adams contribute a guest blog to provide a synopsis of Canada’s longest election campaign in modern history. As political communications experts, we are interested to see how the parties […]
BCI invited Paul Adams to explain one of the longest election campaigns in Canada. The big question in the Canadian election, to be held October 19, is whether the electoral system and the political parties can give the voters what they want: a change in government. Most Canadians are telling the pollsters that they have […]
As the Morocco local and regional election results have come in over the last couple of days, the results – good and bad – should be no real surprise to anyone who has been paying attention to the Moroccan political scene. The real winner is the Party of Justice and Development (PJD). With 31,503 seats […]
Having just completed a project evaluating a program of an election management body (EMB), I was excited to discover a new publication conceived by my former colleague, Julie Ballington (follow her on Twitter: @demo_crazy). Not only is this a great, step-by-step guide for EMBs on how to ensure electoral processes are more inclusive, it is […]
Just back from Nigeria conducting an evaluation for International IDEA on their support to the Nigerian Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). I very much enjoyed meeting the Commission’s Acting Chair, Amina Zakari (pictured here) and the talented staff at the election commission. Together with the African Union and the Government of the Netherlands IDEA has […]