ENEMO has set up the mission to observe the upcoming Local Elections 2013 in the Republic of Kosovo. The mission headquarters are based in Pristina with 5 members of Core Team and 12 Long Term Observers settled in regions. The Long term observers (LTOs) have received one day briefing and they have been deployed to 6 regions throughout the country. ENEMO is applying the International standards for International observation of elections, and within that the LTO’s are deployed in teams of two in the following cities: Prishtinë/Priština, Pejë/Pec, Gjilan/Gnjilan, Ferizaj/Uroševac, Prizren and Mitrovicë/Mitrovica.
The ENEMO mission is headed by Mr. Zlatko Vujovic, the President of the Governing Board of CEMI, Center for Monitoring in Montenegro.
The long term observers will operate in teams in the regions covering the entire territory of the Republic of Kosovo for the both rounds of the elections. ENEMO observers will observe and assess the implementation within the legal framework of the following aspects of the electoral process: the work of the election administration, campaign activities, the voting, ballot counting and tabulation of the results as well as the managing of the procedure of complaints and appeals. During the election period, ENEMO plans to release three reports which will be presented to the media and public. 2 Preliminary reports will be issued after the Election Day of each round of elections, whereas the final report will be disclosed after the election process is over.
As one of the endorsers, ENEMO applies the high standards set forth in the “Declaration of principles for international election observation and code of conduct for international observers”. The ENEMO observers operate and conduct their work in accordance with this declaration. ENEMO's top priorities are objectivity, impartiality and trustworthiness of the information collected by its observers, which is required by ENEMO responsibilities within the network’s basic documents.
Our mission is run by ENEMO members that represent long‐established, non‐partisan civic organizations in their home countries. As a reminder, ENEMO is a group of 22 civic organizations from seventeen countries of the former Soviet Union and central and Eastern Europe. These nonpartisan organizations are the leading domestic election monitoring groups in their respective countries. In total ENEMO member organizations have observed 200 national elections in their countries and more than 100 elections abroad and trained 200 000 election monitors. ENEMO has observed previously the Local Elections in 2009 and Assembly Elections in 2010 in Kosovo.