Iva Lazarova, Executive Director of IPED, and Diana Eftimova, Chair of the IPED Board, are in Brussels this week to attend the FURIC conference organized by the European Platform for Democratic Elections (EPDE). An unprecedented number of elections were organized around the world in 2024. However, they were marked by doubts about their fairness, disinformation,…
On the 30th of September, the European Platform for Democratic Elections-EPDE voted and unanimously approved the Institute for Public Environment Development as a part of its network of election observer organizations.EPDE aims to promote independent observation and partnership between civil society organizations in Europe.IPED successfully collaborated with the network during the European and snap parliamentary…
In the period 05.06 – 10.06, the Institute for Public Development welcomed international observers from The European Platform for Democratic Elections-EPDE. In the days preceding the elections, we introduced them to the peculiarities of the electoral process, the media environment, machine voting, and party financing in Bulgaria. On election day, the international volunteers were…
On the 1st of June 2024, the Institute for the Public Environment Development held a training for independent observers. At the meeting with the volunteers, we discussed the importance of the role of the independent observers, the rules for the opening of election day, voting procedures and vote counting. The efforts of the observers are…
On May 20th the Institute for Public Environment Development organized the debate “The European Agenda and the Bulgarian Perspective” between candidates for members of the European Parliament. The event was opened by prof. Ingrid Shikova. The discussion was between the candidates Aleksander Simov – coalition BSP for Bulgaria, Andrey Kovachev – GERB-SDS, Borislav Sandov -…
At a meeting held on May 13, 2024, the Institute for Public Environment Development (IPED) and the National Audit Office discussed opportunities for long-term cooperation. It will be focused on the control of political party funding aiming to ensure a higher level of transparency of the spending of public funds. During the meeting several topics…
Independent observation on election day is a key element of the work of the IPED. At the end of April, members of the Institute for the Development of Public Environment’s team took part in an international conference in Romania. Together with organizations from different EU countries and with the assistance of Commit Global and Code…
The Institute for Public Environment Development analyzed the data from the final precinct protocols and the information from the flash drives from the voting machines in Sofia Municipality. There were 1 577 polling stations in Sofia that had voting machines in the second round of the local elections. We present the discrepancies between the data…
The Institute for Public Environment Development started work on the project “European elections 2024: the citizens’ voice”. Its goal is to support and stimulate the debate concerning European values and the significance of the upcoming elections for members of the European Parliament. The upcoming activities will be supported by the “Protecting EU…
In the end of 2022 IPED’s team had the opportunity to visit the USA and meet with Bulgarians, who are part of the volunteers there, organizing the Bulgarian polling stations during elections. We talked about their efforts in this process, about the difficulties, and also the satisfaction that this initiative brings them We met with…