CNDH and IFES hold an international seminar on electoral legislation reform in Morocco
The National Human Rights Council (CNDH) and the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES-Washington) will hold an international seminar on electoral legislation reform in Morocco on the 19th and 20th of January 2016, at the headquarters of the House of Councillors (the Upper House) in Rabat. The seminar will advocate for an “electoral legislation that lives up to the constitutional promises and Morocco’s treaty commitments”.
Renowned experts in the field, mainly from Morocco, Canada and the United States, will take part in this event, which has two main objectives:
· identify key electoral legislation reform challenges;
· propose key amendments to the legislative and regulatory framework governing elections, for an inclusive human rights-based electoral legislation that lives up to the constitutional promises and Morocco’s treaty commitments.
The gathering will kick off on Tuesday, January 19, 2016 at 9:00 a.m. It will particularly focus on eight main points: access to voting rights, electoral legislation stability, the preparation of the national electorate, electoral district boundaries, affirmative action and the constitutional principle of parity, the legal framework governing independent and impartial election observation, the regulation of electoral economy and the fight against corruption, as well as the new challenges of electoral communication.
The former Advisory Council on Human Rights (1990-2011) and the CNDH, since 2011, have contributed to reforming the national electoral system through their independent and impartial election observation reports and recommendations in 2007, 2009, 2011 and 2015, in addition to the observation of the constitutional referendum of July 1, 2011.