Timor-Leste 2018 Early Parliamentary Elections: Disability Access Monitoring

Timor-Leste 2018 Early Parliamentary Elections: Disability Access Monitoring

September 5, 2018

Following the dissolution of the National Parliament by the President of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste on January 26, 2018, an early parliamentary election was held on May 12, 2018. In order to assess the accessibility of this election to persons with disabilities, Ra’es Hadomi Timor Oan (RHTO), supported by the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES), and the United Nations Development Programme’s Leveraging Electoral Assistance for Regionalized Nation-Building project (UNDP LEARN), monitored the political campaign period and election day activities to assess the access of persons with disabilities to the electoral process. The support from IFES was funded by the Australian AID, while the support from UNDP LEARN project was funded by the Government of Japan and the Government of the Republic of Korea.

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