BEIRUT: The Lebanese Association for Democratic Elections celebrated the conclusion of its project “Electoral reform advocacy for sustainable democracy in Lebanon” over the weekend.
The project, which was funded by the EU, worked with six youth groups across the country for the last two years, instilling democratic principles and the reform standards called for by the association, Osama Safa, LADE secretary general, said at the closing ceremony.
Diego Escalona, the head of the EU delegation’s Cooperation Section, also gave a statement and said that “free and fair elections are the basis of long-term political stability and economic growth,” adding that “while voting takes place on one day, electoral reform has to take place every day.” According to a LADE statement, the association’s work will continue next year through reactivating communication and networking with the targeted groups in order to spread the electoral culture they have learned as well as to exert pressure toward introducing electoral reforms before the 2013 parliamentary elections
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