The Deputy Head of European Union observers, Yarik Dominsky, announced on Sunday, following an inspection visit to the operations room of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Emigrants in Beirut, that “we have deployed 16 teams to directly monitor the elections of the Lebanese abroad in 13 European countries.”
Dominsky explained that “the teams will monitor the expatriates’ elections from seven in the morning until ten in the evening local time,” adding, “We will also monitor the progress of the electoral process from the operations center of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Emigrants, and we will be present in the counting and sorting of ballot boxes coming from abroad on May 15.” .
“I would like to express my gratitude to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Emigrants for giving us the space to monitor the progress of the electoral process in the operations room,” he said, noting that “the evaluation of the Lebanese expatriate vote will be part of the initial report that we will announce at the press conference on May 17 at eleven in the morning.”
Dominsky pointed out that “the mission arrived in Lebanon at the end of March and our 15 teams on a long-term mission and in the 15 constituencies in Lebanon have submitted their reports regularly since mid-April,” saying that “next Sunday, on election day, the European Union Election Observation Mission in Lebanon will deploy 170 observers on all Lebanese territories.
Source: National Agency