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Filipino Election Monitoring Expert
elected Chairman of International Body
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Damaso G. Magbual,
National Council Member of NAMFREL, was recently elected
Chairman of the Global Network of Domestic Election Monitors
(GNDEM) during its 2nd organizational meeting held in
Johannesburg, South Africa on June 8 to 11, 2015.
GNDEM is a network of election monitors comprised of 220 member
organizations from 84 countries as well as region-based
monitoring bodies from Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, the
Caribbean and the Middle East. Member organizations from the
Philippines are NAMFREL, the Legal Network for Truthful
Elections (LENTE), and the Institute for Political and Economic
Reforms (IPER).
GNDEM’s flagship project is the development of the "Declaration
of Global Principles for Non-partisan Election Observation and
Monitoring by Citizen Organizations", the gold standard
world-wide for independent, non-partisan, and systematic
observation of elections by domestic observers. The Declaration
was launched at the United Nations in April 2012. Magbual was a
member (representing Asia) of the Drafting Committee which
crafted the Document.
GNDEM shares state of the art documents to its member
organizations through its electronic resource center, the most
sought research material being best practices on elections. It
supports member organization facing harassment like the arrest
of the EMO head in Azerbaijan who was arrested on false charges
of tax evasion.
Magbual is the Membership Committee chairperson of NAMFREL. He
is concurrently serving as Chairman of the Asian Network of Free
Elections (ANFREL), a Bangkok-based network of election
monitoring organizations in Asia.
For more information about GNDEM, you may visit
www.gndem.org, as well as
their Facebook
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