The Central Election Commission (CEC) has already registered a record-breaking number of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to monitor the presidential elections in Ukraine on March 31 as official observers.
“This year we have a record-breaking number of NGOs that have been given permission to send their official observers. If in 2014 we had 10 such organizations, including six that were observing in all the regions of Ukraine, today these are 138 NGOs,” head of the CEC Tatyana Slipachuk said at a briefing on Feb. 8.
She said 130 out of all the Ukrainian NGOs registered intend to have observers in all the regions of Ukraine, three — in the Odesa region, two — in the Chernihiv region, and there will be one organization to observe elections in each of the following regions: the Zakarpattia, Dnipropetrovsk and Kharkiv oblasts.
Slipachuk also said 109 observers from six international organizations, including the OSCE/ODIHR, and one from the Federal Republic of Germany have already been registered.
In 2014, members of 39 international organizations monitored the presidential elections in Ukraine.
