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MP Kyriakos Hatzigiannis, Vice-President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE CSCE) and Special Representative of the Assembly for South-Eastern Europe, will travel to Skopje next Monday to participate in a CSCE mission. OSCE mission to monitor the second round of the presidential elections in the Republic of North Macedonia, to be held on Wednesday, 8 May 2024. The OSCE mission will include around seventy parliamentarians from OSCE participating States, who will be deployed to various cities in North Macedonia to verify the compliance of the electoral process with the criteria set out in the OSCE Copenhagen Document.
Participants in the mission will, inter alia, have separate meetings with representatives of the country's electoral authorities, political parties and the media. They will also be briefed by the OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) long-term election observation mission.
The main issues to be addressed by the CS mission will be. The OSCE mission will focus on electoral legislation, the organisation of the electoral process, campaign financing and security issues.
On election day, Mr. Hatzigiannis will visit polling stations in Bitola, where there is a Greek minority, to monitor the electoral process on the spot.
During his stay in Skopje, Mr. During his stay in Skopje, Hatzigiannis, in his capacity as Special Representative of the Assembly for South-Eastern Europe, will have meetings with the Head of the OSCE on-site mission in Skopje, with a representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the country, as well as with representatives of non-governmental organizations and academics.
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