candidate registration

Candidate registration took place from 28 May to 2 June.

The period of electoral campaigning was to be decided after candidate registration had closed.

Campaigning could only truly begin after the deadline for candidate registration, which was in early November.

A new election law passed in 2004 has received international criticism for its restrictive candidate registration requirements.

The group had concerns over candidate registration and concluded that unfair access to media put into question the overall fairness of the vote.

Candidate registration is open from 11 September to 11 November.

However, he lost election with only 19,871 votes, not enough to qualify to get his candidate registration fee refunded.

The decree pledged, among other things, more open candidate registration, freedom of assembly and an end to using state power to help chosen candidates win.

But when Raghad, 25, tried to run for local office, the men at the candidate registration office informed her that women could not be candidates.

As the violence unfolded, the country's political parties negotiated furiously before the Friday deadline for candidate registration.

Strict candidate registration requirements also limited "genuine competition".

Candidate registration closed on 15 October.

Campaign Season Opens The official 28-day campaign period began with candidate registration on Friday.

Similarly, multiple extensions of the deadline for candidate registration were granted whilst talks with the Coordinadora continued.

Candidate registration (including candidate pack)

Foreign observers were also critical of the elections, particularly regarding the issues of candidate registration, media access and voting irregulatities, including multiple voting.

Moreover, the few western vote monitors bemoaned the inequality of candidate registration and the abuse of administrative resources by Medvedev allowing blanket television coverage.

However, the period immediately after the elections was marked by objections about voter and candidate registration and vote tabulation, as well as calls for greater transparency.

Candidate registration: £22 (includes a candidate pack with all units covering all four sectors, candidate folder and competence transcripts)

By contrast, the main opposition Democratic Alliance, incorporating the Popular Front, put up only 218 candidates (the opposition alleged communist manipulation of the candidate registration process).

Mahmoud Abbas, the director of the committee, said that by Sunday, the last day for candidate registration, "Only two people had registered for presidential elections and 700 for the council."

The teams analyze each campaign period and election day, including voter and candidate registration, safeguards against multiple voting, ballot counting, use of state resources, media coverage, police conduct and more.

Election experts and long-term observers begin their work weeks before the actual election day, looking at candidate registration, the legal framework, the media situation, the work of the election administration, and the campaign environment.

Previous dramatic increases in uptake have now begun to level off, with changing patterns within the participating sectors now becoming more significant; for example, schools' candidate registrations have almost reached parity with the further education sector.

Lidia Yermoshina, the Chairperson of the Central Election Commission, announced on 29 August that 276 candidates were registered for the election; 365 people initially sought to run, but five withdrew and candidate registration for 84 others was rejected.