The Organization of American States (OAS) says its Electoral Experts Mission to the general elections in Grenada, led by OAS Assistant Secretary General Nestor Mendez, began its deployment on Wednesday ahead of the March 13 poll.
The OAS said Ambassador Mendez arrived in St. George’s, Grenada, late Wednesday.
He will lead a team of six experts from Belize, Jamaica, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago, and the United States.
On Thursday, the OAS said the Chief of Mission and the Supervisor of Elections in Grenada, Alex Phillip, will sign the Electoral Procedures Agreement, which establishes the framework for the work of the Mission in Grenada.
To analyze key aspects of electoral process
“The electoral experts will also immediately commence their interactions with stakeholders in-country,” the OAS said.
It said the Experts Mission will focus on “analyzing key aspects of the electoral process, including the electoral registry, electoral organization and technology, and campaign financing.”
The OAS said the team will also gather information about the status of the recommendations made by the OAS Mission to the 2013 elections.
CARICOM observer mission
In addition to observes from the OAS, the elections will also be monitored by the Caribbean Community’s (CARICOM) observer mission headed by director of the Legal Affairs, Research and Development Unit of the Electoral Office of Jamaica (EOJ), Paulin Welsh.
On Wednesday, the Guyana-based CARICOM Secretariat said the other members of the CARICOM Electoral Observer Mission (CEOM) will come from The Bahamas, Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago.
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