oas electoral observations vs. unasur accompaniment in the last elections in Venezuela

Electoral observation has become an essential exercise for the development of electoral democracy. The proliferation of organizations monitoring elections makes necessary to distinguish real «election observation activities», from other similar activities, such as «electoral accompaniment». Independ...

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Autor principal: PASCUAL PLANCHUELO, Víctor Carlos; Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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Lenguaje:Español
Publicado: Universidad de Salamanca 2017
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Acceso en línea:http://revistas.usal.es/index.php/1130-2887/article/view/alh201775127148
http://biblioteca.clacso.edu.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=es/es-011&d=article11985oai
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Sumario:Electoral observation has become an essential exercise for the development of electoral democracy. The proliferation of organizations monitoring elections makes necessary to distinguish real «election observation activities», from other similar activities, such as «electoral accompaniment». Independence is an essential element that must be respected by true electoral observation organizations. Accordingly, the lack of independence in some of these organizations transforms them into «intervened electoral observation» actors, dowgrading its credibility and reliability. Hence, the last electoral processes that have taken place in Venezuela, provide the necessary factual basis to distinguish oas election observation missions, from unasur accompaniment missions.