Tbilisi. The International Society for Fair Elections and Democracy (ISFED) has founded the European platform of observer organizations together with the NGOs from the EU, Easter Partnership states (EaP), and Russia. The platform aims to support civil observation of elections in the Eastern Partnership states and the Russian Federation and to facilitate the democratic election processes in entire Europe. The platform will develop innovative approaches of fighting the falsification of elections, ensure sharing of experience among member organizations, deliver trainings for the citizens' observer networks in the Eastern Europe and support the informing of the European political structures about the election observation results. The first activities of the platform will focus on supporting the civil observation of elections at the planned 2013 presidential elections in Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia, as well as the regional elections in the Russian Federation and Ukraine.

Source: isfed.ge