{"id":8,"count":22,"description":"The Elections Program is being conducted by Transparency Maldives (TM) geared towards the upcoming Presidential, Local Council and Parliamentary elections spanning from August\/September 2013 to June 2014.

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Transparency Maldives' post parliamentary election press conference 2014<\/i>

The objective of this program is to advance the values of transparency and integrity in electoral processes by ensuring civil society participation and monitoring the pre-election, election day and post-election period whilst empowering the electorate to vote responsibly based up on a well informed decision.

Former work conducted by TM in this field include the first domestic election observation which TM conducted during the country's first multi-party Presidential Election of October 2008, the Parliamentary Election of May 2009 and the Local Council Election of February 2011.

TM had also successfully advocated in 2011 to amend the Local Council Elections Act to enable voters to vote away from their registered birthplace during the Local Council Election without which a third of the voting population would have been excluded from the ballot. TM also sits on the National Advisory Committee for Elections, the highest statutory body that is mandated to advise the Elections Commission.

The program is comprised of five sub-projects, which are; an electoral assessment, a comprehensive voter education program, development of the Online Complaints Database, election observation, and media monitoring.","link":"https:\/\/transparency.mv\/category\/elections\/","name":"Elections","slug":"elections","taxonomy":"category","parent":0,"meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/transparency.mv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/8"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/transparency.mv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/transparency.mv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/category"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/transparency.mv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?categories=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}