COSCE mobilizes 1,100 observers in the 46 departments of Senegal

The Collective of Civil Society Organizations for Elections (COSCE) plans to deploy 1,100 observers across the country’s 46 departments to supervise the legislative vote on November 17.

“The MOE-COSCE, made up of forty-six long-term observers, began covering the 46 departments of the country on October 1,” recalled the president of the COSCE, Professor Babacar Guèye, during a statement. The opening of the civil society electoral observation mission this Saturday, at its headquarters in Dakar.

He specified that “COSCE deployed 1,100 short-term observers (OCTs) including 500 fixed and 600 mobile. They will observe, on the basis of statistical samples, the electoral operations and the counting of votes on polling day.

He assures that “the MOE-COSCE will be conducted in accordance with the principles of independence, impartiality and objectivity, in accordance with international, continental and regional standards and instruments as well as the Constitution and the Electoral Code of Senegal” .

For the vote to be held in calm and serenity, the COSCE Electoral Observation Mission urges the State to “guarantee all voters a free exercise of their right to vote, while taking the necessary measures for optimal organization of the ballot.”

He asks candidates and political actors to “maintain peace and social cohesion and to call on their activists to avoid all forms of violence”.
The COSCE calls on “citizen voters to participate massively in the vote in calm and serenity”.