EU chief observer, Judith Sargentini
According to a statement availed to The Guardian yesterday by
European Union the group will join the EU EOM’s core team of election
analysts who arrived in Tanzania on September 11, this year.
The EU EOM to Tanzania is led by Judith Sargentini, a Member of the European Parliament from the Netherlands.
The statement said following a two-day briefing in Dar es Salaam on
all aspects of the electoral process, the long-term observers will be
deployed in teams of two across Tanzania.
It said their task over the next six weeks is to observe election
preparations, including the election campaign and the work of the
election administration.
They will also observe voting, counting, the tabulation of results,
as well as the handling of possible election-related complaints and
appeals.
“The work of the long-term observers will allow the EU EOM to
conduct a comprehensive assessment of the electoral process across the
whole country– before, during and after Election Day,” said EU chief
observer, Judith Sargentini.
“Our observers will meet with election officials, candidates and
representatives of civil society, and will report their observations
back to the core team in Dar es Salaam, so that an informed and
impartial assessment of the election is made.”
The EU EOM to Tanzania was deployed following an invitation from
the government, the National Electoral Commission and the Zanzibar
Electoral Commission.
The mandate of the mission is to observe all aspects of the
electoral process and to assess the extent to which the elections comply
with international and regional commitments for democratic elections
undertaken by Tanzania, as well as with Tanzanian law.
The EU EOM will work independently of EU institutions and EU member states.
All observers adhere to a Code of Conduct that requires strict
neutrality in the course of their work. The EU EOM operates in
accordance with the ‘Declaration of Principles for International
Election Observation’, adopted at the United Nations in 2005 by a number
of international bodies involved in election observation.
At full strength, the EU Election Observation Mission to Tanzania
will comprise around 140 observers. In addition to the Core Team and the
long-term observers, the EU EOM will be joined closer to Election Day
by 60 short-term observers, a delegation of members of the European
Parliament, and locally-recruited short-term observers from the EU
delegation, as well as embassies of EU member states, Norway,
Switzerland and Canada in Dar es Salaam.
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