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Washington, DC − IRI today announced it will send a delegation to Jordan
to observe the January 23, 2013 parliamentary elections. Delegates from Canada,
the Czech Republic, the Netherlands, Poland and the United States will travel
to Jordan to monitor voting and ballot counting throughout the country.
Following the voting, IRI will issue a statement on the findings of the
delegation.
The delegation will be led by
Gahl Hodges Burt, Vice Chair of the American Academy in Berlin and
a member of IRI’s Board of Directors; and Agnieszka Pomaska, member of the
lower house of the Polish Parliament and chair of the European Affairs
Committee.
Other members of the delegation
are:
Petr Bratský, member of the Czech
Republic Senate;
Christopher Carr, Vice President
at J.P. Morgan;
Darryl Gray, former member of the
Canadian Parliament;
James Hart, former member of the Canadian Parliament;
Steve Heydemann, Senior Adviser
for Middle East Initiatives at the United States Institute of
Peace;
Tami Longaberger, Chief Executive
Officer of the Longaberger Company, member of IRI’s Board of Directors and
Chair of the Arab Women’s
Leadership Institute’s
Board of Directors;
Matt Rhoades, former Chief of
Staff to Governor Mitt Romney;
David Schenker, Aufzien Fellow
and Director of the Program on Arab Politics at the Washington
Institute for Near East Policy;
Christopher Tuttle, Director of
the Washington Program at the Council on
Foreign Relations; and
David Vriesendorp, Member of the
Board of Directors of the Eduardo Frei Foundation in the Netherlands.
Prior to the elections, delegates
will be briefed by Jordan’s Independent
Election Commission, Jordanian nongovernmental organizations and
parliamentary candidates. Delegates will also be briefed on the rights and
responsibilities of international observers, the Jordanian Code of Conduct for
election observers and Jordanian election law. Delegates will then be deployed
throughout the country where they will observe the polling process and identify
strengths and weaknesses in Jordan’s election system, including campaign
regulations, drawing electoral district boundaries, the balloting process, vote
tabulation and reporting.
IRI staff will also serve as
observers and assist in the mission. IRI staff will be led by Judy Van Rest, Executive Vice President of IRI; Scott
Mastic, Director of Middle East and North Africa programs; and Jeff Lilley,
Resident Country Director for IRI in Jordan.
IRI also deployed three teams of
long-term observers in November to monitor the elections throughout the
Kingdom. Long-term observers are meeting with government officials, political
campaign representatives, civil society activists and election stakeholders. They
will also monitor voting and ballot counting on Election Day, and the
adjudication processes and resolution of complaints following the elections.
Since 1983, IRI has monitored
more than 150 elections in more than 46 countries, including Jordan’s 2010 parliamentary
elections.
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